Kurtney Chedgey Family Analysis

Introduction
This essay will be covering the basics of Kourtney Chedgey’s family history. There are many different types of families, such as nuclear families, single parent families, extended families and even modified extended families. By using statistical averages in Australia for the number of children, age of first marriage, Divorce, Second marriage, Defacto relationships, and women’s occupation (full time or part time), which will be compared to 3 generations of the my family history. I will also be exploring the additional theories that have come to best explain the structure of the changing generations. My family is considered to be a sole (single) parent family, which consists of a Parent, a sibling and myself.
Family Diagram
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But then in the first decade of the 20th century, the number of divorces raised to range around 300-500 each year. It finally hit a peak at 1947, but this was reflected the instability of hasty wartime marriages and disruptive effects of war on the marriage. The rate declined slightly until 1960’s when the introduction of Matrimonial Causes Act 1959, which came into full operation in 1961. The act had provided legistration across all states and territories, which was there to provide 14 ways to file for divorce, with people having to either prove fault or undergo five years of separation. Due to increasing pressure, the Federal Government introduced the Family Law Act 1975, which was fully operational in 1976, due to this the crude rate of divorced soared to its highest peak of 4.6 divorces per 1,000 resident population in that year. The highest number of divorces was recorded at 63,230. My grandparent on my mother side were divorced in 19?? And my parents divorced in 1996, according to Figure 6: Number of Divorces and Crude divorce rate 1901-2011 (shown in appendices), my parents are part of 40,000-50,000 people who were

Political Economy Perspective, which is also known as historical materialism, Marxism, and socialism theory, is the theory that emphasises how families and relationships are shaped by particularly economic relations and social class. Feminism is the perspective that are diverse and interdisciplinary towards the degree of conflict or divergence between women and men’s interest in the family and relationships. Micro-sociological perspectives in contrast to the functionalist, the political economy and individualization, it emphasises how individual are actors in a social form or how they make meaning out of each social interaction with others. The Queer theory is a postmodern ideal that is quite underdeveloped, with the use of postmodern, it is a label to describe the diversity of contemporary families. According to Weller (2015, p.1) the definition of Individualisation is better explained by Beck and Beck-Gernshiem (2002) definition which is that the idea of an individual, who does not conform to the standard ideals that have been previously set by the gender roles in a nuclear family