Impacts of Family
Positive Contemporary NF offers financial + emotional stability with older and younger
generations Negative
S
EVIDENCE: Family diversity has increas
• Harper – older people are cared for by their adult children & in exchange help to led to greater welfare depe
to NRR Murray forms the ‘u
F
tability socialise their grandchildren.
EVIDENCE: Mclanahan & S
- Functionalism • ONS – 61% of grandparents see their grandchildren at least once a week the
increased life expectancy means there’s more multi-generational families and the
inancial Strain children in SPF, income is th
wellbeing
older generation can provide childcare + financial support. - New Right Realism • ONS (2014) – 41 % of sin
in relative poverty 2x th
parent families
We live in an at risk society, where tradition is less influential and we have greater
N
• Sociological Review – 1/
choice. People are aware of these risks/rewards that come with personal re-mortgage their home
relationship decisions EG 50% of marriages end in divorce children & increasingly e
egotiated Families EVIDENCE:
- Post Modernism • Beck – families are now negotiated with people deciding what they want from
Marxist Feminists believe tha
relationships if they’re not satisfied, they can simply end it or leave. This leads to
increased with beanpole, san
higher rates of relationship breakdowns and personal upset
E
families caring for the elder
I
extended family & especially
Liberal Feminists believe that family diversity has given women more freedom and welfare dependency essentia
equality because they’re no longer tied to the housewife /child carer role.
motional Strain at the same time its detrime
ncreased Equality EVIDENCE: -Marxist Feminism can lead to greater dual burd
- Liberal Feminism • DWP (2012) – increase of ‘ALPHA female’ women are taking financial control and
have a say in important decisions EVIDENCE: Care UK – 1/3 of
• Dunne – based on a study of 37 co-habiting lesbian couples with dependent in sandwich families claimed
children, lesbian couples tend to be more equal in that they have a lack of ‘gender deteriorated and 1/3 also sa
scripts’ they’re more likely to negotiate roles equally suffered
P
• Care UK – women are 4x
caring for the elderly as w
Post Modernists argue that relationships within some family types are becoming more
ure Relationships companionate as couples share interests and are putting time into their social/ emotional lives.
for children remaining @
- Post Modernism EVIDENCE: Increase in LATs, single pare
• Giddens People stay together out of love not necessity highlighting this idea of confluent could lead to social isolation
R educed Conflict
love which is based on mutual satisfaction
Radical Feminists like non-nuclear families and advocate for separatism, believing that women
should live separately from men to avoid abuse + conflict overall.
S ocial Isolation
- New Right Realism
support as they have no oth
EVIDENCE: Harper – people
so that means fewer sibling
EVIDENCE: Cashmore – SPF can be more stable and less conflicted than 2 parents in conflict with such siblings/cousins leadin
- Radical Feminism each other. Its quality OVER quantity of parenting
• Greer – children in same sex families are less likely to witness the oppression of women • ONS – 1.7 M widowed w
Positive Contemporary NF offers financial + emotional stability with older and younger
generations Negative
S
EVIDENCE: Family diversity has increas
• Harper – older people are cared for by their adult children & in exchange help to led to greater welfare depe
to NRR Murray forms the ‘u
F
tability socialise their grandchildren.
EVIDENCE: Mclanahan & S
- Functionalism • ONS – 61% of grandparents see their grandchildren at least once a week the
increased life expectancy means there’s more multi-generational families and the
inancial Strain children in SPF, income is th
wellbeing
older generation can provide childcare + financial support. - New Right Realism • ONS (2014) – 41 % of sin
in relative poverty 2x th
parent families
We live in an at risk society, where tradition is less influential and we have greater
N
• Sociological Review – 1/
choice. People are aware of these risks/rewards that come with personal re-mortgage their home
relationship decisions EG 50% of marriages end in divorce children & increasingly e
egotiated Families EVIDENCE:
- Post Modernism • Beck – families are now negotiated with people deciding what they want from
Marxist Feminists believe tha
relationships if they’re not satisfied, they can simply end it or leave. This leads to
increased with beanpole, san
higher rates of relationship breakdowns and personal upset
E
families caring for the elder
I
extended family & especially
Liberal Feminists believe that family diversity has given women more freedom and welfare dependency essentia
equality because they’re no longer tied to the housewife /child carer role.
motional Strain at the same time its detrime
ncreased Equality EVIDENCE: -Marxist Feminism can lead to greater dual burd
- Liberal Feminism • DWP (2012) – increase of ‘ALPHA female’ women are taking financial control and
have a say in important decisions EVIDENCE: Care UK – 1/3 of
• Dunne – based on a study of 37 co-habiting lesbian couples with dependent in sandwich families claimed
children, lesbian couples tend to be more equal in that they have a lack of ‘gender deteriorated and 1/3 also sa
scripts’ they’re more likely to negotiate roles equally suffered
P
• Care UK – women are 4x
caring for the elderly as w
Post Modernists argue that relationships within some family types are becoming more
ure Relationships companionate as couples share interests and are putting time into their social/ emotional lives.
for children remaining @
- Post Modernism EVIDENCE: Increase in LATs, single pare
• Giddens People stay together out of love not necessity highlighting this idea of confluent could lead to social isolation
R educed Conflict
love which is based on mutual satisfaction
Radical Feminists like non-nuclear families and advocate for separatism, believing that women
should live separately from men to avoid abuse + conflict overall.
S ocial Isolation
- New Right Realism
support as they have no oth
EVIDENCE: Harper – people
so that means fewer sibling
EVIDENCE: Cashmore – SPF can be more stable and less conflicted than 2 parents in conflict with such siblings/cousins leadin
- Radical Feminism each other. Its quality OVER quantity of parenting
• Greer – children in same sex families are less likely to witness the oppression of women • ONS – 1.7 M widowed w
