Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Trends in Families + Households part 1
- FAMILY SIZE
- Increase
- Extended families are the
norm - 36 million people in
the UK have lived in one
- Single parent families
make up 26% of all family
types
- Many parents will have more
children to get better benefits
- Decrease
- On average family size is
decreasing, as people
know their kids will live
longer and so have less
- Women have kids later
which means she will only
have 1 or 2
- Voluntary
childlessness
- MARRIAGE
- Decrease
- Rise in womens
independence
- Wilkinson - Genderquake
- Women would rather
focus on careers than
family
- Don't need to marry for
economic security
- General changes
in society
- Morgan - marriage is
going out of fashion
- Beck + Beck-Gernshiem -
Individualisation
- Media is increasing
expectations
- DIVORCE
- Increase
- Women's independence
- 70% of all divorces are
petitioned by women
- Renvoise - women can
financially support kids
- Feminists - won't put up
with DV anymore
- Decline in stigma
- Divorce has become accepted
in society - the norm
- Beck + Beck-Gernshiem -
Individualism
- Broken home stigma is
basically gone
- COHABITATION
- Increase
- Female independence
- Wilkinson - Genderquake
- Morgan - a legitimate
alternative to marriage
- Less financial
security needed
- General changes in society
- It's expected that you
know your partner
before marriage
- Young generations fully
accept cohabitation
- It's the norm