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Changing family patterns - Coggle Diagram
Changing family patterns
Divorce
Explanations for the increase in divorce
Rising expectations of marriage
Women's increased financial independence
Secularisation
Feminist explanations
Declining stigma and changing attitudes
Modernity and individualisation
Changes in the law
The meaning of a high divorce rate
Changing patterns of divorce
Partnerships
Marriage
Reasons for changes in patterns of marriage
Cohabitation
The relationship between cohabitation and marriage
Same-sex relationships
Chosen families
Reasons for increase in cohabitation
One-person households
Reasons for the changes
'living apart' together
Parents and children
Lone parents
Reasons for patterns
Lone parenthood, the welfare state and poverty
Stepfamilies
Reasons for the patterns
Childbearing
Reasons for changes
Ethnic differences in family patterns
Black families
Asian families
The extended family today
The beanpole family
Obligations to relatives