Families

• Rappoports: Family Diversity:

  5 types of family diversity:

  • Cultural
  • Life Course
  • Organisational
  • generational
  • Class
• Cause of Family Diversity:

  • Changing patterns: more single parents are reconstituted families; relationship breakdown more common
  • Changing roles: Women having careers mean they are having less children
  • Economic Factors: Increasing wealth means more people can live alone
  • Policies: 1972 Equal pay act, divorce reform act