Diversity in Types of British Families
Britain has changed in many ways in recent years, not just by
advancing in technology but in social ways too. One of these ways is
the diversity in types of families. Fifty years ago, in would be
extremely unusual to have a divorced family, a un cohabiting couple
with children or lone parent families. Nowadays, Britain has the
highest divorce rate in Europe and 40 percent of marriages end in
divorce.
There are a few reasons for this and here are a few of them. Firstly,
these days divorces are a lot cheaper and accessible to the regular
unhappy marriage. Secondly, they are now socially acceptable and
divorced couples are no longer looked down on because of their failed
marriage. I think that the final reason and probably one of the most
important is that women no longer need to rely on the their husbands
financially. Most women earn an equal or higher wage than their other
half so if they were to get a divorce they could do so without living
in poverty or struggling to bring up their children. Of course,
fathers are made to pay child support also but that is not necessarily
enough.
I think that another reason for the growing diversity is the rise of
secularisation; this is when religion becomes increasingly les
important to society. It is a very big issue in Britain and is
probably the first cause of the growing divorce rate in Britain.
Christianity teaches that marriage is for life and that you should
avoid divorce at all cost. I don't necessarily think that this is such
a good thing, as I think that a women and child would be better of out
of a house where they were getting beaten ...
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...l nuclear family ever since it came about. It
consists of four beautiful people, a beautiful mother, a beautiful
father, a beautiful son and a beautiful daughter, all of course blonde
and the picture of perfect health. They are used in advertisements to
how people that they are the perfect happy family and everyone should
be like them in order to be truly content. The one thing that confuses
me is that this cereal packet family remains this way even though the
majority of the population are nowhere near alike to them.
Overall, I think that there is defiantly a lot more diversity in
families these days than there was in the past and I think that this
is a good thing. I am glad that couples now have the right to make
their own decisions about their relationship with feeling as if they
are being frowned upon by society.
World War ǁ was a global military event, the most colossal conflict in history lasting from 1939-1945, it involved most of the worlds nations including Great Britain. WWII had far-reaching implications for most of the world. The following essay will demonstrate the changes the UK family has undergone since World War ǁ, the following essay will also throw light upon the changes in family types, economic activities of women , power distribution, laws and sexuality with respect to disciplines of sociology, economics, history and politics.
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