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Concern and debate over changes to family life have increased in the last decade, as a result of evolving employment patterns, shifting gender relations and more openness about sexual orientation. Most politicians and researchers have viewed these changes as harmful, suggesting that the family as an institution should not alter. The ‘New’ Family? challenges these dominant views. Leading academics in the field consider current diverse practices in families, and reveal the lack of balance between policies based on how families should be and how they actually are, illustrating the need for a broader definition of family.
Resourcing the Family: Gendered Claims and Obligations and Issues of Explanation
Resourcing the Family: Gendered Claims and Obligations and Issues of Explanation
A key development in the family in contemporary society is the modification of male claims to a breadwinner wage and a growth in the prevalence and importance of the financial co-resourcing of households. This development reflects important changes in women's and men's relations to paid employment and to the family and is suggestive of a reordering of gendered positions in the reproduction of social and economic life. Research in the area reveals two rather different perspectives on these changes. One is that they are bound up with a significant transformation in the nature of social relationships and ties. Here a rise in individualism and ...
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