Debates about Family Diversity

• Positive- Greer

  Women are pursuing relationships that aren't based on patriarchal norms.
• Positive- Bernardes

  positive thing- families of choice
• Positive- Giddens

  Confluent love- choice to pursue relationships they want.
• Negative- popenoe

  Children brought up in non-nuclear families will likely be scarred.
• Negative- Beck and Beck Gernsheim

  risk-based society so people aren't pursuing the relationships they really want.
• Negative- Murray

  Inadequate norms and values due to lack of male role model.
• Are Diverse-Leach

  Cereal packet families- families have become far more diverse but presentation of nuclear family in media makes us think its the norm.
• Are Diverse- Giddens

  Transformation of intimate relationships- now people pursue relationships they want based on Confluent Love.
• Are Diverse- Gittens

  ideology of the nuclear family isn't the norm anymore but the media wants us to think its the norm.
• Aren't Diverse- Murdock

  Studied 200 different societies and found the nuclear family present in all of them- universal
• Aren't Diverse- Sommerville

  critical of census date- gives inaccurate picture. Only 5% of people will never marry.
• Aren't Diverse- Chester

  Neo-conventional families- New family types match the structure of the nuclear family.