Globalisation on the family

• Increased geographic mobility


  Many left UK to work overseas
• Changes in employment

  Decline in manufacturing industries and increase in mothers working
• Changes in family diversity

  Increase in lone person households due to economic migration and overseas students, less fixed structures of relationships
• Impacts on family

  • Isolation from family
  • Changes in gender roles = closing gap between unpaid labour
  • Movement away from extended family