Identified 5 types of family diversity
1. Cultural - ethnic or religious background influences family type (eg Asian families extended, afrocarribean families lone-parent)
2. Life-stage - where you are in your life cycle influences family type (eg cohabiting before marriage, single-person pensioner households, child in nuclear)
3. Organisational - changes to how family roles are organised (eg joint conjugal roles, dual-earners, female breadwinner)
4. Generational - older generations tend to have more traditional views and young people more liberal (old people less likely to get divorce/ cohabit, young people more likely to due to secular beliefs)
5. Social-class - WC and MC have different family structure (eg MC tend to be dual-earning and outsource childcare to paid nannies, differences in socialisation, WC likely to cohabit as marriage is expensive)