Shame about Single Mums
An excellent documentary about the history of single mums in the UK featuring Jamelia
An excellent documentary about the history of single mums in the UK featuring Jamelia
This post explores the similarities and differences in marriage and civil partnership between same sex and opposite sex couples in
One obvious difference between same-sex and opposite sex couples when it comes to children is that same-sex couples don’t have
the middle classes are more likely to get married and have babies later, and fewer of them.
The Sex Map of Britain is a very interesting recent documentary series which ‘meets people for whom sex, sexuality and
A summary of the Rapoport’s five types of family diversity and ‘extreme’ diversity theorists Alan Crow and Beck-Gernsheim.
Brief revision notes on family diversity for A-level sociology students studying families and households.
Functionalist sociologists tended to define the family as consisting of two parents in a committed relationship living together with their children. Postmodern and other sociologists have much broader definitions.
married family households are decreasing, cohabiting family, lone parent family and single parent family households are all increasing.
people increasingly choose to live alone because of increased wealth, urbanisation, improved communications and living longer