Family Diversity Flashcards
Nuclear Family
CHESTER
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Nuclear family is the most dominant even if we do not spend all our lives in one
LEACH
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Nuclear family is still the ideal family type and what we advertise on cereal packets as the perfect family
Nuclear Family
EVALUATION
Not the most dominant - 42% of marriages end in divorce
Cohabitation
MORGAN
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Cohabit out of fear of divorce
FLOUR AND BUCHANON
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Marriage is no longer economically necessary
Fewer women choosing to marry
COAST
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Teenagers now expect a period of cohabitation even if marriage is the long term goal
Cohabitation
EVALUATION
Crow - families are becoming more based on choice but amount of change is overstated
Wilson - cohabitation is an unstable family type, easier to break up
Lone-Parents
LEWIS
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Government and EU policies encouraging women into work
Changed family life - women can now financially support themselves, dont stay in unhappy relationships
DREW
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Marriage is a matter of choice
Higher expectations
If not met, likely to leave and start again
Lone-Parents
EVALUATION
Dennis and Erdos - Lone parent families damage children.
Need a father figure for discipline and as a role model.
Blended
ALLAN AND CROW
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Lack or research into blended families as they appear normal.
Seen as a soloution to the ‘problem’ of the lone-parent family.
Blended
EVALUATION
Burgoyne and Clark - Blended families suffer from problems other family types do not
Singlehood
GIDDENS
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Confluent love, wont settle until found
LAMBERT
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Women financially independent, delaying marriage (FITT)
WILKINSON
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Feminsation of the work force - Genderquake
Singlehood
EVALUATION
Bridget Jones Syndrome - Women are lonely
Same Sex
FITZGERALD
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No evidence to suggest that same-sex families influence their childrens sexual orientation
Do not encourage behaviour ‘innapropriate’ for their sex
Same Sex
EVALUATION
Same sex relationships have high levels of domestic violence
