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Types Of Family - Coggle Diagram
Types Of Family
Extended Family
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Can be horizontally extended - means relatives from the same generation live together. For example, two brothers and their wives and children may from a family unit.
Can be vertically extended - means it includes not just two generations (parents and children) but three or more (grandparents and great grandparents).
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BECK AND BECK GERNSHEIM (1995) - Individualisation, Where individuals choose their own lifestyles and identities rather than following norms laid down by the tradition. This includes individuals choosing whether to maintain ties with extended families or to lead more independent lives.
YOUNG AND WILMOTT (1973) - Argued that a new type of family, the symmetrical family, has spread to all social classes. Based on a nuclear family and centred on the relationship between husband and wife. Where they share domestic labour, decision-making and leisure-time.
People have much greater choice and flexibility today in how the organise their personal and family lives.
Reconstituted Family
Where a couple come together and form a family including at least one child from a previous relationship of one partner.
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In England and Wales (2011), there were 544,000 reconstituted families with dependent children.
GRANT (2006) - Suggests that men are increasingly likely to be living with other men's children while their own grow up elsewhere.
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Non-Family households
In 2013, 800,000 households containing two or more unrelated adults.
Due to the process of individualisation people are breaking away from traditional rules and social pressures in order to choose their own family lifestyles and identities.
Families of choice - Individuals may choose to include people as family members who are not traditionally related. For example, Close Friends.
Cult of the individual - Idea that individualisation and selfishness have become more important than social obligation or tradition.
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Living Alone
- Ageing population - People living longer, likely to be divorced or widowed in old age.
GIDDENS
- Confluent love - we can choose we fall in love with and live by ourselves.
- The cult of the individual - (klineberg), idea that individuals are more focused on their own needs rather than on their role in larger societies.
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KLINEBERG
The cult of the individual - Idea that individuals are more focused on their own needs rather than their role in larger social structures.
Lone parent families
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According to government statistics, children in lone parent families are twice as likely as children in couple families to live in relative poverty.
Singlehood
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HALL ET AL. (1999) - Many single people found a freedom in being solo and chose to concentrate on careers rather than relationships.
HEATH (2004) - Rise of young people who continue to live with their parents after education to save money. (Kippers).
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NICK SPENCER (2005)
"Lone parenthood was associated with increased risk of health and educational problems, and antisocial behaviour among boys and girls".
Mainly because of material disadvantages. For example, low income or poor housing.
Argued government policies should focus on reducing inequality and tackling disadvantages rather than stigmatising lone parents.
Same-sex Families
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have achieved considerable advances in terms of equality in society.
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Nuclear Family
Traditional view is that the father goes out to work and the mother stays at home to care for her husband and children.
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Living Apart Together
LEVIN (2004)- Identified LATS as a newly emergent form of family which allows individuals to enjoy the intimacy of being part of a couple but the autonomy of being alone too.
HASKEY AND LEWIS (2006) - For many, living apart together is simply a prelude to cohabitation and possibly marriage, so many LATS may aspire to relatively conventional relationships in the long run.
Some individuals choose to live alone but maintain long- standing intimate relationships with a partner who lives elsewhere.