Family Diversity Flashcards
(18 cards)
Divorce
- increasing
Legal changes
Decline in stigma
Secularisation
CPOW
Modernity and individualisation
Marriage
- decreasing
Secularisation - don’t marry religious reasons
Decline in stigma of alternative - 1989 70% 2012 42%
CPOW
Cohabitation
Secularisation
CPOW
Decline in stigma of sex outside marriage - 1989 44% 2012 65% say premarital sex okay
Same sex relationships
- increasing
Decline in stigma
Secularisation
Legal changes - 2013 gay marriage legalised from 1967 homo acts legalised
One person households
- increasing
Divorce patterns
Marriage patterns - adults who are single risen around 50% since 1971
Creative single hood - Stein more ppl opt creative single hood, deliberate choice to live alone - post mod
Step / reconstituted families
- Increasing
Divorce patterns
Courts - most children from women’s previous marriage
Living apart together
- increasing
CPOW
Limited finances - can’t afford live together
Decline in stigma - 20% saw LATs as ideal relationship which is higher then cohabitation
Lone parent families
- increasing
CPOW - afford it, increase welfare benefits so can leave if don’t earn enough
Divorce patterns
Black families - why lone-female headed?
- more lone parent households - 2002 over 50% LPFs are black families
- family disorganisation, during slavery, couple sold separate, kid stay with mum, created pattern, women socialised independent
- high unemployment due to racism, men less able provide, cause desertion or marital breakdown
Asian families - why big households ?
- Usually have larger families B 4.5, P 4.1 compared white 2.3 and households have 3 generations
- younger age profile, more likely have kids younger
- value of extended family in Asian culture from religion, need to marry , their duty
Family diversity isn’t desirable p1
Functionalist - Parsons
- nuc fam meets needs, geographically and socially mobile
- performs primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities
- nuc fam best perform functions
- housewife biological role, diversity causes problems e.g boys gangs
Family diversity isn’t desirable P2
New right
- ideal under threat cause social problems
- increase crime rate and lone parent unnatural, burden welfare state, dependency culture
- Benson, parents of 15,000 babies, 20% separated if unmarried, 6% if were married, society broken
Family diversity good thing P1
Stacey - CPOW increased family diversity, rejected housewife so formed family best suited, divorce extended family, post mod family diverse, shape depends on choices (divorce,gay)
Morgan - can’t generalise about the family, individual chooses family
Family diversity is good thing P2
Giddens and Beck - increase choice on relationships, individualisation thesis, in past dictated by role and structure, disembedded from trad role, fewer certainties, freedom choose
Beck - standard biography replaced with do it yourself biography, creates loads of family types
Family diversity is good thing P3
Beck - expectations of each member varies on needs of each family, fathers role alter if divorce, risk society, family ties unpredictable and flexible, negotiated family
Family diversity is good thing P4
Smart - connectedness thesis
- choices made within a web of connectedness, personal history influence range of options
Finch and mason - relationships negotiated to an extent, obligations restrict choice, challenge assumption of pure relationships
Isn’t much family diversity P1
Functionalists
- most end up getting married, trad nuclear family essential, not concerned about different family types in short term, remarry as value marriage
Isn’t much family diversity P2
Chester
- importance of family diversity exaggerated, both parents work and equal division of labour, family diversity about life cycle, e.g. one person house, elderly widows
Cohabitation is stepping stone to marriage
