FAMILY

• individualisation causes families to lack traditional norms + LAT and singlehood is “less risky”

  • Beck and Beck Gernsheim
  • 1995
• “Confluent love“

  • Giddens
  • 1992
• Rejection of the heteronorm, friends take the place of family

  • Roseneil & Budegon
  • 2004
• “divorce is a positive step towards a new life” - only 7% disagreed

  • Duncan & Phillips
  • 2008
• the privatised nuclear family, there is less pressure for couples to stay together

  • Parsons and Bales
  • 1995
• high expectations of marriage cause an increase in divorce rates, if love is lost there is no reason to stay

  • Fletcher
  • 1966
• the nuclear family is “too good to be true”, it fails to acknowledge the dark side of the family

  • Bernades
  • 1997
• family practices, eg. cooking meals for each other

  • Morgan
  • 1996
• family display, eg. photos

  • Finch
  • 2007
• LAT is a prelude to cohabitation and marriage

  • Haskey and Lewis
  • 2006
• love as an illusion, men exercise power and control over women

  • Langford
  • 1999
• reasons for living alone: the cult of the individual, rise of technology + an ageing population

  • Klinenberg
  • 2013
• “Nanny state“, criticised an overprotective Government

  • Murray
  • 2001
  • New Right
• South Asian families are more likely to adopt traditional gender roles compared to their white counterparts

  • Berthoud
  • 2001
• an increase in single parent families have a negative impact on children, leading to poverty crime + a lack of social cohesion

  • Dennis and Erdos
  • 1992
  • New Right
• the media causes moral panics, increasing parental concern for the children

  • Furedi
  • 2001
• older working class couples have an “allowance system”, men control the finances

  • Pahl
  • 1989