family diversity

• benson


  first 3 years of a baby's life, family breakdown

  married couples- more stable
• chester


  neo convenetional family- dual earners

  
  

  lone parents aspire to be NF

  sees no evidence of major change

  people spend majority of life in NF
• rapoport and rapoport


  5 stages of family diversity

  
  

  - organisational

  - cultural

  - social class

  - life course

  - generalisation
• stacey


  divorce extended family

  - connected through divorce not marriage
• giddens 1


  choice and equality

  
  

  family and marriage changed by greater choice

  - women have independence

  - contraception- sex not just reproductive
• giddens 2


  same sex couples pioneers

  - people allowed to develop relationship on choice

  - enable same sex couples to create family structures that serve their own needs
• beck 1


  negotiated family

  - tradition has less influence and people have more choice, live in a risk society because of more choice

  - traditional patriarchal family undermined by : greater gender equality, greater individualism
• beck 2


  zombie family

  family appears alive but is dead due to uncertainty

  people want family to be a haven of security in an insecure world but family can't provide this due to instability
• individualisation thesis - beck and giddens


  increase in individualism means we perceive relationships differently

  we have more choice of who we date and relationships are conditional
• connectedness thesis - smart


  choice limited by personal histories

  relationships with people impact our decision making