globalisation & changes to fam

• Declining family size and more childless/single person households


  Correlated with increased economic growth due to globalisation
• Increased migration


  Leads to greater ethnic diversity and more families stretched across national borders
• Increased sense of risk and uncertainty

  Related to trends of more pure relationships, negotiated families, and higher divorce rates
• Globalisation


  Increased sense of risk and uncertainty
• Globalisation of media flows

  Leads to more family-like global friendship networks and more toxic childhood
• Increased gender equality


  Linked to trends of increased equality between men and women in relationships and more childless couples
• Globalisation


  Increased gender equality
• Economic globalisation


  Resulted in increasing trade which in turn has resulted in economic growth and rising prosperity
• Economic growth


  Correlated with declining birth rate and increased life expectancy
• The average household size in the UK is smaller today