Society and Health- Family and Society
- Created by: Megan Mcwilliams
- Created on: 10-05-11 09:38
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Key functions of the family:
- socialise children
- reproduction of the children
- housing
- access to services
- financial resources
- care,security and protection
- emotional needs for love
- values,beliefs and attitudes
- cultural identity;
Types of family and Household:
- nuclear family
- extended family
- reconstituted family
- lone parent family
- gay/lesbian family
- single person household
- multi-person household;
Changes in household and family composition:
- changing nature of the extended family- due to greater mobility, do not rely on extended family as much, prefer being self reliant;
- changing roles within the family- more working women and more stay at home dads;
- smaller family size- more women pursue careers, and due to better health care, more babies survive, so people do not have more;
- increases in childless women- rather have careers now that they have the option to do that;
- increase in older mothers- more women wait until they have done what they want to do;
- changing divorce rate- mothers people get divorced quickly and easily, due to it not being looked down on anymore as much as it was;
- more step families- once people get divorced, they now join up with new partners, as remarriages have massively increased.;
- more cohabitation- more people don't bother getting married as its easier to just stay living with a person;
- increased births outside marriage- more people just have children now without waiting to be married;
- increase in lone parents- this is could be due to being widowed, divorced, separated, or just births to single women; more popular today due to being helped off the welfare state;
- more non-dependent children still living at home- as the cost of living has increased, children think its easier to live at home until a lot later to save up money;
- civil partnerships- now more acceptable in society to be openly gay, so people now have civil partnerships to make it more official;
- more one-person households- more pensioners, divorcees and separations.
Basic human needs:
Maslow's hierarchy of needs; shaped in a triangle with five parts,
- the base of the triangle is physiological needs which includes warmth and shelter.
- then above that is safety needs, this includes the need for security and laws, it can also mean simply installing a burglar alarm.
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