Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Diversity of family forms.
- Families are now negotiated
- Morgan
- Claimed that it was the routines of
family life that gave us the sense
of being a family member rather
than relationships.
- Changes in social attitude
- Rapports
- Outlines types of family diversity in
modern society. + Family structures and
organisation + Ethnic and cultural
variations + Life course + Cohort (the
generation you were born into).
- Emancipation of women
- Giddens
- Cause of change in family was
triggered by greater equality. The
cost of equality is that
relationships are less stable.
- Key info
- Families with children: Married with children = 66%
Cohabiting couples with children = 11%. Lone mother
with children = 22%. Lone father with children = 2%.