Stacey

• Stacey argues that greater freedom has benefited women.
• Stacey found that women have been the main agent in the change in family structures.
• Most women Stacey interviewed had worked, returned to education, improved their prospects and divorced then remarried.
• Stacey introduces a new family type; The ‘divorce-extended family.’
• The ’divorce-extended family’ refers to families connect by divorce rather than marriage.
• Morgan argues it is pointless to make large-scale generalizations about society as it is based on the individual.