Types of Family Diversity

• Rapoport and Rapoport says only a minority of families resemble the 'ideal nuclear family'
• Rapoport and Rapoport say there is 5 types of family diversity in modern Britain;

  • Organised diversity
  • Cultural diversity
  • Social class diversity
  • Life stage diversity
  • Cohort/generational diversity
• Organisation diversity says there is different patterns of domestic and paid work that exist in different families, such as conjugal roles of dual earners
• Cultural diversity is different patterns based on religion or ethnicity
• Social class diversity is different patterns of conjugal roles and child-rearing practices between working class and middle class families
• Life stage diversity says throughout our lives we will live in different types of family structure
• Cohort/Generational diversity say different patterns of the family between generations, based on attitudes