I think that another reason for the growing diversity is the rise of secularisation; this is when religion becomes increasingly les important to society. It is a very big issue in Britain and is probably the first cause of the growing divorce rate in Britain.
Christianity teaches that marriage is for life and that you should avoid divorce at all cost. I don’t necessarily think that this is such a good thing, as I think that a women and child would be better of out of a house where they were getting beaten regularly.
Before there was really, only one type of family and this was a married co habiting couple with children. Preferably two, one girl one boy. Now there are all sorts of families, of course there is still the happily married two children family. However, there is also, un cohabiting couples with children, lone parent families, childless couples. Before these families would have been social outcasts but now no one is looked down on because of their marital status or living arrangements.
I think that the reason that the divorce rate is declining is primary socialization. By this, I mean that, children learn from their parents. Right? In addition, if their parents are not cohabiting or even speaking to each other then they may learn from that and never settle down themselves. If a young girl is in an abusive relationship where she sees a man maybe her father continually hurt her mother it is very likely that she will continue to mistrust men for the rest of her life, and then if she does have children her children will learn from her opinions and it will go on.
I don’t think that immigration has changed divorce rates really because at the end of the day it is a couples personal decision to split up or get a divorce and immigrants have nothing whatsoever do with that decision, unless one of the couple has had an affair with one. On the other hand, I do think that it has helped to change the diversity of families in the Britain. I think this because there is a lot more diversity generally in Britain now, and say one or two hundred years ago, there would not have been many coloured people in Britain at all. If there were no coloured people in Britain then people could not marry them. When immigrants started arriving in Britain then people of different races starting getting married and then that was the arrival of multicultural marriages.
The one family that has never changed is the cereal packet family. It had remained the typical nuclear family ever since it came about. It consists of four beautiful people, a beautiful mother, a beautiful father, a beautiful son and a beautiful daughter, all of course blonde and the picture of perfect health. They are used in advertisements to how people that they are the perfect happy family and everyone should be like them in order to be truly content. The one thing that confuses me is that this cereal packet family remains this way even though the majority of the population are nowhere near alike to them.
Overall, I think that there is defiantly a lot more diversity in families these days than there was in the past and I think that this is a good thing. I am glad that couples now have the right to make their own decisions about their relationship with feeling as if they are being frowned upon by society.
