Rhona & Robert Rapoport

• Cultural diversity


  Families differ in their cultural values and beliefs
• Organisational diversity


  Families vary in their structures, the ways they organise their domestic division of labour and their social networks
• Social Class Diversity


  a family's social class position affects the resources available members, role relationships between partners/child-rearing practices.
• Life course diversity


  the stage in the family life cycle that a particular family has reached e.g. empty nest
• Cohert diversity


  the particular period of time in which a family passes through different stages of the family life-cycle. Social stigma, so younger couples may find it easier to get divorced today