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Childbearing and Childrearing (Family
Patterns)
- Lone parent families
- 90% headed by lone mothers
- Their children twice as likely to be in poverty
- Increase in divorce
- Decline in stigma to births outside marriage
- Female- nurturing role,
court tend to give custody
- Professional women
chose to be alone or w/c
on benefits
- 90% headed by lone mothers
- Women remaining childless
- Prediction- quarter of those born in 1973 will be childless at age 45
- Prediction- quarter of those born in 1973 will be childless at age 45
- Having children later
- 1971 - 2005 average age rose 3 years
- More career opportunities, less motherhood pressure
- 1971 - 2005 average age rose 3 years
- Cohabitation
- 4/10 children born outside
marriage, 5 times more than
1971
- Normally both parents registered and cohabiting
- only 1/3 18-24 yr olds
marriage think
marriage should come
before parenthood
- Decline in stigma
- 4/10 children born outside
marriage, 5 times more than
1971
- Reconstituted Families
- 10% of families in Britain
- Similar
arrangements to first
families but more like
poverty- Smith& Ferri
- Allan & Crow suggest risks of conflict and tensions
- children more likely to
remain with mother
- Poverty because father paying for prev relationship
- 10% of families in Britain
- Smaller family size
- Fell 2.94 in 1964 to lowest of 1.63 in 2001 and rose to 1.84 in 2006
- Fell 2.94 in 1964 to lowest of 1.63 in 2001 and rose to 1.84 in 2006
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