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Family - Coggle Diagram

- - - - dual burden
- - - - reproduction, socialisation, sexual, economic
- - - - Wilson and Stuchbury - cohabitation is less stable than marriage
      - Murphy - children of cohabiting parents are disadvantaged
    - - Bernardes - divorce is less damaging on children than a negative marriage
    - - Hunt
        
        Older generation is no longer useful in society as it can't provide
      - Fletcher
        
        Welfare state helps provide the family with policies like tax credits and child benefits
      - Murray
        
        Welfare state is to generous and people don't see as much need to provide for society
        
        single parent families lead to social problems
      - Weeks
        
        Conventional nucleur family is the only valid way of life
      - Giddens
        
        People have more choice with their relationships
      - Crow
        
        acceptance of increasing family diversity and changing relationships have increased lone-parent
  - - - individualisation thesis
        
        we have been freed or disembedded from traditional roles of being ascribed roles based on class, gender and religion
        
        Giddens argues this transformation has caused advancements such as the availability of contraception and female independance.
    - - divorce-extended families which may include ex partners and their new partner
      - Greater freedom and choice has benefitted women making them free from patriarchal opression.
  - - - people construct their own meaningful relationships which may or may not align with traditional definitions of family