Instrumental Role

Expressive Role

Seperated Conjugal Roles

Segregated conjugal roles

March of Progress

Symmetrical Family

Patriarchal

Dual Burden

Triple Shift

Division of Labour

Cultural explanation

Material explanation

Gender scripts

The Allowance System

Pooling

Personal life perspective

Social construct

Cross-cultural differences

Child protection and welfare

Toxic childhood

Age Patriarchy

New Sociology of childhood

Functional fit

Primary socialisation

Stabilisation of adult personalities

The 'warm bath' theory

Ideological functions

Unit of consumption

Liberal feminists

Marxist feminists

Radical feminists

Difference feminists

Demography

Child-centredness

Dependency Ratio

Public services

Death rate

Life expectancy

Infant mortality

Ageing population

Ageism

Migration

Net Migration

Immigration

Emigration

Feminisation of migration

Hybrid identities

Transitional identities

Assimilation

Multi-culturalism

Divorce

Secularisation

Marriage

Cohabitation

Same-sex relationships

Lone-parent families

Extended families

The 'beanpole' family

The 'neo-conventional' family

The individualisation thesis

The pure family

The connectedness thesis

Familistic gender regimes

Individualistic gender regimes

Postmodernism