Stacey: Postmodern Families

• Stacey 1998
• greater freedom and choice has primarily benefited women - allowing themselves to be free from patriarchal oppression to meet their needs
• in Silicon valley women rather than men have been the main agents of change in the family
• Many rejected the traditional housewife-mother role
• Divorce-Extended Family:

  1. families connected by divorce
  2. where new partners help out old partners etc
• Morgan 1996/2011: pointless to make large scale generalisations on the family rather a family is simply what said members think are their family