There are many factors why family and household patterns have become more diverse in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War;

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There are many factors why family and household patterns have become more diverse in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War; this is due to the changes in our value and laws, which will be explained in detail in this essay plan. In the UK, there are many diverse family structures, which were not heard of prior to the Second World War. The different family structures are: The nuclear familyThe extended family The lone parent familySame sex familyThe reconstituted familyThe household familyThe cohabitating family The UK’s values and laws are changing, which is why we have such diversity. Divorce reform act 1971: this bought in ‘irretrievable breakdown’ this meant divorce cases in England and Wales rose considerably between 1971-1987. In 1961, approximately two people
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divorced per every thousand people in the UK, in 1987, this figure rose to approximately 12 per thousand. It has also become cheaper to become divorce on average around £13000 per divorce. Divorce has now become more socially acceptable. Divorce used to carry a “stigma,” ‘People these days are far less likely to put up with empty shell marriages (Fulcher, J & Scott, J (1999).)’ Remarriages rose by about a third between 1971 and 1972, following the introduction of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 in England and Wales, and then levelled off. In 2007, 88,010 marriages were remarriages for one ...

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