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Assess the degree of diversity in modern British families today.
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Assess the degree of diversity in Modern British families today. The conventional families have far been lost in the diversity that is available in today's modern society. I am going to look the main elements of diversity that is present in the modern British family. As far back as 1978, only 20% of family have had the traditional family unit. If we look back to Murdock's definition of a family we can see that in the 1950's diversity was not accepted in society. Murdock was a traditionalist who believed in the nuclear family units, the husband worker, the housewife and one or more children. In today's society dual worker families are increasing, this where the husband and wife both work. He also believed in Vertical extensions; spouse's parents/granny, and horizontal extensions; husband's brother plus additional wife. Murdock's view was that a family consisted of; 'adults of both sexes, at least two of...
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