The Consequences of an Ageing Population
healthy life expectancy isn’t keeping pace, and the sheer cost of looking after the elderly in the context of family-individualism make the ageing population a problem!
Demography, Families and Households
Families and Households
Families and Households, Social Policies
Social Policy and The Family
How do social policies affect family life?
A Radical Feminist Perspective on the Family
the norm of the traditional, privatised nuclear family can disadvantage women who would be more free in women only households.
Families and Households, Family diversity, Social Action Theory (Interpretivism and Interactionism)
The Personal Life Perspective on the Family
The Personal Life Perspective: dogs and dead relatives are part of the family too!
Demography
What is the Impact of Immigration on Family Life?
Changes to the the dependency ratio and age structure are two impacts.
Marriage, Divorce and Cohabitation
Changes to Marriage and Divorce – Infographic
I knocked up this brief ‘infographic’ in Skitch on the iPad – explaining the decline of marriage and the increase
Families and Households, Feminism, Marxism
Marxist Feminist Perspectives on Family Life
women do housework and childcare for free and this benefits capitalism.
Families and Households, Feminism
Liberal Feminist View of the Family: A Summary of Somerville’s Perspective
We need more equal working relationships to have more equal domestic relationships!
Childhood, Families and Households
Explaining Why so many Young Adults Live with Their Parents
You might like this video version of some of the material discussed below According to the Office for National Statistics,
Families and Households, Family diversity
Why Do so Many Twenty Somethings Live with Their Parents?
27% of young adults live with their parents.