mind map on family types
Reasons for the increase in one-parent households: A significant proportion of lone parent families are elderly people who are widows, due to increase in life expectancy there are a growing number of elderly people living alone. Rise in divorce rates has allowed people who were originally married to settle on their own. Increase in geographical mobility mainly graduates who live on their own to look for employment before finding a partner. More employment opportunities for women means they are able to afford to live alone.
Households: one or more people sharing accommodation, living and eating together, a household can contain people who are not related to each other and are financially or socially independent
Tends in the family size have changed due to birth rates and fertility rates. The reason for the long term decline in family size, birth and fertility rate. 1) Changes in gender role, women choose to have fewer children and delay childbearing as there has been improved contraception, increased women with paid employment after marriage so women delay childbearing to fit it around their careers. greater legal equality, Equal pay act, this made working more worth while.
Over the years marriage have decreased significantly, the decline in marriage may be due to change in social attitudes in which marriage is not seen as socially desirable, secularisation and an increase in cohabitation.
Cohabitation has increased significantly over the years, a survey showed that in 1979 in the UK there was 3% of the women cohabiting but by 2005 there was 12%. Patricia
Morgan (2003) sees cohabitation as a trend and that marriage is going out of fashion, she believes that it represents an increase in the number of sexual partners. she says that cohabitation couples stay for a shorter time than married couple, however Joan Chandler (1993) disagrees and believes that cohabitation is a relatively stable alternative to marriage.
Marital breakdown involves the failure or the
ending
Households: one or more people sharing accommodation, living and eating together, a household can contain people who are not related to each other and are financially or socially independent
Tends in the family size have changed due to birth rates and fertility rates. The reason for the long term decline in family size, birth and fertility rate. 1) Changes in gender role, women choose to have fewer children and delay childbearing as there has been improved contraception, increased women with paid employment after marriage so women delay childbearing to fit it around their careers. greater legal equality, Equal pay act, this made working more worth while.
Over the years marriage have decreased significantly, the decline in marriage may be due to change in social attitudes in which marriage is not seen as socially desirable, secularisation and an increase in cohabitation.
Cohabitation has increased significantly over the years, a survey showed that in 1979 in the UK there was 3% of the women cohabiting but by 2005 there was 12%. Patricia
Morgan (2003) sees cohabitation as a trend and that marriage is going out of fashion, she believes that it represents an increase in the number of sexual partners. she says that cohabitation couples stay for a shorter time than married couple, however Joan Chandler (1993) disagrees and believes that cohabitation is a relatively stable alternative to marriage.
Marital breakdown involves the failure or the
ending