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What does Allan and Crows study suggest? |
In 2001, Allan and Crow observed a greater diversity in domestic arrangements. People no more followed a fixed pattern in family life. It wasnt essential to get married to have children, sexual intercourse outside marriage seemed okay. There was a greater freedom. The family is no more constrained by social or economic need but the family is still not an egalitarian institution. |
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Cross cultural study comparisions between 1961 to 2010. 14 Europeon nations. |
In 2010, houses with couples and dependent children were just 21% as compared to 38% in 1961. Lone parent households had tripled. Lone parent households increased from 6 to 10%. |
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What do ducan and phillips say about lone parents |
Lone parenthood was still seen less than ideal in 2006. Allan and crow suggest the reason being marital breakdown and unmarried mothers giving birth. |
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Welfare for lone parents |
Many sociologists believe that the increase in lone parents is due to the genorosity of welfare. The new labour party developed a scheme in Britian called the new deal which encouraged lone parents to find employment. David Cameron initiated a campaign to fight prejuduice against lone parents. The burghes and brown study (1995) on single mothers found that a very less amount of pregnencies were planned. |
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Robert Chester in support of the nuclear family. |
Robert Chester (1985) argues that changes in family life have been minor and that the theory of family diversity is misleading. He believed that a snapshot picture of the households would not provide an appropriate picture of the british family. It would not indicate the life cycle it would rathar just indicate conditions at a specific instant. Chester suggested that half the population was still living in nuclear households while, 25% was living as couples. It is inevitable that at one point of time everyone would be a part of a nuclear household. |
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Robert chester 2 |
According to Chester, there is little evidence that people are choosing to live in alternate family forms. Changes are occuring in family life but they are not major. One of the changes is that woman are getting employed, however this is also for a small portion of their married life. 58 % of the wives worked. The neo conventional family is the one where wives take a considerable part in the labour market. |
