family diversity

murdock definition of a family + the five factors that make it up

a social group characterised by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. it includes adults of both sexes who maintain a sicially approved sexual reationship, and one or more children, own or adopted

• 1 man and a woman who have a sexual relationship

• live together

• share income and household tasks with some division of labour

• reproduce

• children - biological or adopted

nuclear family

• two adults man and woman living together with their biological or adopted children

• often contains a breadwinner and a housewife

• 2021 census 81.3%

vertically extended family

• families with grandparents living together

• 2021 census 5.4%

horizontally extended family

• families with aunts or uncles living together

lone parent family

• a mother or father living with her / his children

• due to separation or divorce, death of partner, end of cohabitation, birth to a never-married single mother

• majority are lone mothers, because their most likely to get custody, women are socialised to be caring so its more socially acceptable, men are sometimes reluctant to be lone parents

• 2021 census 18.7%

reconstituted family

• step family

• married or cohabiting couple with children who are not the biological offspring of both adutls

• 2021 census 781,000 step families

same sex family

• civil partneships 2005 -