SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes -Economic Inequality
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Family types in 1901: 69. 1%- married with children, 17%- married without children, 13. 9%-lone parents. Family types in 2006: 29. 9%- married couples without children, 38. 7%- married couples with children at home, 16. 9%- lone-parent families, 6. 9%- common-law couples with children at home, 8. 5%- common-law couples without children. They argue that it is inaccurate to talk about the family, as if this important social institution assumes or should assume only a single form. They emphasize that families have been structured in many ways and that the diversity of family forms is increasing as people accommodate new social pressures: 2). They argue that changing family forms do not necessarily represent deterioration in the quality of people"s lives. Such changes often represent improvement in way people live www. notesolution. com. They believe that various economic and political reforms, such as the creation of an affordable nationwide daycare system, could eliminate most of the negative effects of single parent households.
