All the twos Family

• 2 reasons for high divorce rate:

  • Changes in social policies + Law (1969 divorce reform act)
  • Changes in gender roles + position of women
• 2 reasons for increased life expectancy:

  • Improved Healthcare/treatments (NHS)
  • Better housing conditions
• 2 functions of the family :

  • Primary socialisation
  • Stabilisation of adult personalities
• 2 cultural differences in the experience of childhood :

  • Collective culture (China)
  • Individualistic culture (UK)
• 2 impacts on family due to migration:

  • Extended families
  • Creates mix culture diversity
• 2 social policies that impact the role of women:

  • The equal pay act
  • Sexual discrimination act
• 2 ways families can manage money:

  • Partial-pooling
  • Allowance
• 2 reasons for the rise in single person households:

  • Secularisation
  • Less stigma
• 2 reasons for the rise in cohabitation:

  • Cost of living crisis
  • Society is less religious
• 2 ways power can be expressed within relationships:

  • Abuse (Mirlees Black)
  • Division of household labour
• 2 changes in the pattern of marriages:

  • Women get married later
  • Serial monogamy
  • Too expensive
• 2 sociological views of increased family diversity:

  • Neoconventional family - Chester
  • Lesbian mothers - Wilkinson
• 2 critical views of the nuclear family :

  • Marxists - unit of consumption
  • Feminists - oppression
• 2 ways childhood experience has changed over time:

  • Children dressed as adults - Aries
  • Disappearance of childhood due to media - Postman
• 2 reasons why families are becoming smaller:

  • Overpopulation laws - China
  • Financial constraints