• More people living together without being married: Religion isn't so influential nowadays so it isn't considered a sin any more to have children without being married. Divorce rates are rising and nowadays many people decide not to remarry with their new partner. Same sex couples were unable to marry until very recently and people are likely to trial living together before marriage. These are all factors influencing these changes. Feminists say this is a good thing as marriage is a patriarchal institution. Functionalists and New Right disagree as they believe nuclear family is the only family type that can do the job properly. • More single parent families: The divorce act in 1960's made it easier to get a divorce.

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There are more teenage pregnancies than in the past. The availability of in vitro fertilisation are all factors behind these families. Functionalists are completely against these families, they do not think a single parent can perform all the important functions of the family.

• More same sex families: More socially acceptable due to campaigns by gay right groups. Gay couples are now allowed to adopt. Sds 2 Design Data on this page.

• Around 40% of marriage in the early 2000's will end in divorce • In Britain today, about a quarter of families with dependent children just one one parent. • About 40% of births are outside marriage, and the proportion in growing every year. • There are well over a million cohabiting couples (couple living together when they aren't married) who have refused to get married.

• Rising rates of divorce, cohabitation, lone parent and reconstituted families show a picture that family is in decline. This has been blamed for a wide range of social problems such as social disorder and crime. • The rising divorce rate is caused by easier divorce laws, more sympathetic public attitudes, rather than marriage breakdowns. • Lone parenthood arises from a variety of reasons and lone parents are able to provide care and security for children as two-parent families.

Surah Baqarah Urdu Translation Pdf. • Despite the record number of children being born outside of marriage, nearly 80% of those births are registered jointly by parents with the same address. John Frusciante Curtains Rar File on this page. • Many of those who cohabit eventually marry - about 60% of first time cohabitations turn into marriages.