TYPES OF FAMILIES

Question 1

NUCLEAR FAMILY
Definition

Answer 1

Wife, husband, 2 kids

Question 2

NUCLEAR FAMILY
Postmodernist views

Answer 2

No such thing as typical family. In decline since 60s

Question 3

EXTENDED FAMILIES
Definition

Answer 3

Families with strong relationships to kin

Question 4

EXTENDED FAMILIES
Roles

Answer 4

Males - help financially
Females - help with childcare and elderly

Question 5

EXTENDED FAMILIES
Vertically and horizontally

Answer 5

Vertically - grandparents
Horizontally - siblings

Question 6

Young and Wilmott
Symmetrical nuclear families 1970s

Answer 6

Responsibilities shared equally

Question 7

Responsibilities shared equally
Sociologist?

Answer 7

Young and wilmott - symmetrical families 1970s

Question 8

EXTENDED FAMILIES
Dispersed extended families - digital tech helps stay in touch
Sociologist?

Answer 8

Wilmott

Question 9

EXTENDED FAMILIES
Dispersed extended families - Wilmott

Answer 9

digital tech helps stay in touch with families

• come together special occasions

Question 10

LONE PARENT FAMILIES
Evidence that mothers are head of lone parent families

Answer 10

•Judges favour mothers in court
-(ONS) 2013 1/4 families with dependent kids

Question 12

LONE PARENT FAMILIES
Stats

Answer 12

•2% remarry after 5 years
•4% cohabit after 5 years
•6% single

Question 13

LONE PARENT FAMILIES
Gov Stats on poverty

Answer 13

2x likely to live in relative poverty
Kids antisocial
Once kids hit 12, employment stabilises equal to couples

Question 14

SAME SEX FAMILIES
When could gay people adopt

Answer 14

2002

Question 15

SAME SEX FAMILIES
What did they do before 2002

Answer 15

Surrogate mothers

Question 16

SAME SEX FAMILIES
Lesbians and kids

Answer 16

Mainly blood mothers to kids from previous marriages

Question 17

RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
Definition

Answer 17

Step families, remarriage, half siblings
-evolved from single hood

Question 18

RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
Men in reconstituted families

Answer 18

Men are increasingly likely to be living with other men’s kids as theirs grows up elsewhere

Question 19

RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
According to ONS % that is reconstituted families

Answer 19

ONS - 11%

Question 20

RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
Living apart together definition

Answer 20

Couples together but bringing kids up in separate households

Question 21

RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
LAT
Who favour this

Answer 21

Young couples and old
Promises intimacy but freedom

Question 22

RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
LAT
what does this evolve into?

Answer 22

Marriage and cohabitation

Question 23

NON FAMILY
Individualisation thesis
Sociologist

Answer 23

Beck and beck gernshiem

Question 24

NON FAMILY
Individualism - Families of choice

Answer 24

Friends become the new family
Pete are kids

Question 25

NON FAMILY LIVING ALONE Klineberg - why is single hood increasing 3

Answer 25

1. Cult of individual 2. Communication revolution - social media singlehood attractive 3. Aging population - widows

Question 26

NON FAMILY LIVING ALONE Communication revolution definition

Answer 26

Single hood glamorised by social media

Question 27

NON FAMILY LIVING ALONE Smith

Answer 27

Old people dispersed extended families - visited by kids

Question 28

BEANPOLE FAMILIES Definition

Answer 28

•less aunts and uncles, more grandparents 4 gens. Inc life expectancy

Question 29

BEANPOLE FAMILIES Sandwich generation

Answer 29

Older middle aged generations who pay for elderly parents and adult kids

Question 30

COHABITATIONS ONS trends in cohabitation

Answer 30

•cohabit 4 years before marriage •80% married previously cohabited - less likely to end in divorce •2004-2014 increase by 30% •fastest growing family type (doubled 1996-2012)

Question 31

COHABITATIONS Why do people cohabit 3

Answer 31

•trial run of marriage •poorer cohabit to afford rent •65+

Question 32

EXTENDED FAMILY SOCIOLOGISTS

Answer 32

Young and Wilmott Wilmott

Question 33

LONE PARENT SOCIOLOGISTS

Answer 33

Gov stats

Question 34

RECONSTITUTED FAMILY SOCIOLOGISTS

Answer 34

ONS

Question 35

SAME SEX SOCIOLOGISTS

Answer 35

ONS

Question 36

NON FAMILY HOUSE HOLDS Sociologist

Answer 36

Klineberg

Question 37

COHABITATION SOCIOLOGISTS

Answer 37

ONS