How is family life changing?

4.3

What the syllabus asks of you

Demographic factors and their effects on family life: Family size
Demographic factors and their effects on family life: Birth rates
Demographic factors and their effects on family life: Life expectancy
Demographic factors and their effects on family life: Ageing population
Demographic factors and their effects on family life: Having children in later life
The impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on family structures and roles
Explanations of changing patterns and trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation: Legislation
Explanations of changing patterns and trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation: Societal attitudes and values
Explanations of changing patterns and trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation: Role of the internet
Explanations of changing patterns and trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation: Secularisation
Explanations of changing patterns and trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation: Cultural expectations
Explanations of changing patterns and trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation: Changes in the status and power of women / female empowerment
Alternatives to marriage: Cohabitation
Alternatives to marriage: Singlehood
Alternatives to marriage: Lone parents
Alternatives to marriage: Civil partnerships
Changing family roles: Changing conjugal roles: more diverse family types; segregated to joint conjugal roles, e.g. symmetrical family, dual worker family; the pivot/sandwich generation
Changing family roles: Changing roles of children: economic burden/cost; child-centredness; boomerang children
Changing family roles: Changing roles of grandparents: childcare; economic support; wisdom and advice; dependent / a burden

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