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Assess the argument that decline in marriage and the increase in both cohabitation and births outside of marriage are significant threats to the stability of the family.
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Essay Title: "Assess the argument that decline in marriage and the increase in both cohabitation and births outside of marriage are significant threats to the stability of the family." The family is a central institution in most - probably all - societies the family is normally considered to be a central social institution for two reasons: Firstly, children grow-up within some sort of family structure. Through their experiences in this social group children make their first contacts with a sense of "wider society". Secondly, because of this experience of primary socialisation, the family group plays a vital part in the framing of the way people develop individually (in terms of their "personality") and socially (in terms of wider relationships with others). In this essay I am going to look at the nature of such things as marriage, divorce, illegitimacy, separation, cohabitation and so forth, within a framework that focuses around the question of...
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