Changes in household and family group composition.
- Created by: Bethany Barlow
- Created on: 11-11-14 11:17
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- Changes in household and family group composition.
- Changing roles within the family
- Women now work - greater income
- House husbands
- Greater equality rights
- employment
- women to be in clerical/care work - less pay
- Male role to provide
- Female to care
- Childcare + housework by women
- Changing nature of the extended family
- Traditional declining
- Self - contained
- Self - reliant
- Dependent children live in nuclear families
- Grandparents become live-in child minders
- Rising cost of residential care
- Inadequate pension
- childcare costs
- Smaller family sizes
- Decreasing births since 1901
- Baby booms after war.
- 1960s, high living standards.
- Baby booms after war.
- Declining birth rates
- Changing role of women in society
- Developments in health care
- Reduced infant mortality rates
- Greater availability of contracaeption
- Accessibility to abortion.
- Money and time given to children
- Smaller family = higher standard of living
- Increase in childless women
- Women make contributions to labour market
- More women waiting till older to have children
- Have to rely on state for assistance, as children will be too young
- Increase in older mothers
- Possessions instead of children
- wait until mid 30s
- More women waiting till older to have children
- Have to rely on state for assistance, as children will be too young
- More women waiting till older to have children
- wait until mid 30s
- Possessions instead of children
- Changing divorce rate
- Cause emotional and behavioral problems
- Children may blame themselves
- Financial stress
- Demand got housing
- Cause emotional and behavioral problems
- More step families
- Children stay with mother when marriages end
- sep families offer household stability, financial resources.
- Could be tension and resentment,of step family.
- More cohabition
- When a couple share an intimate relationship living together without being married
- More likely to break down
- No legal settlement
- More likely to break down
- When a couple share an intimate relationship living together without being married
- Increased births outside marriage
- more registered jointly, suggests parents live together when child is born
- Increase in lone parent families
- Divorce, separation, widowhood or births to single women outside marriage
- social acceptability of lone parent families
- Vulnerable to poverty.
- Need affordable housing and in many cases childcare so the parent can work
- More non-dependent children living with parents
- costs of higher edcation, shortage of affordable housing
- More young men than women living at home
- civil partnerships
- a legal relationship, which can be registered by two people of the same sex.
- Ability to obtain legal recognition for their relationship.
- allows them to adopt
- a legal relationship, which can be registered by two people of the same sex.
- more one-person households
- pensioners live alone
- females live longer, live alone
- increased life expectancy
- Divorce and separation
- increase = housing shortage
- pensioners live alone
- Changing roles within the family
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