Family Diversity In Britain Since The 1960's

Family Diversity in Britain since the 1960s
The 1960s typical British household consisted of what is known as a “Nuclear Family”. The meaning behind this is a family which consists of a mother, a father and two children ideally a boy and a girl. In this family the father would be considered as the bread-winner. This means the father would be the main source of income, or even the only source of income. The mother would be expected through tradition to be the one who stays at home and cooks, cleans and tends to the children. The father realistically would have the easier role as after he had been to earn the bread (money) the father would traditionally come home to the “warm bath” idea. Which is where the evening meal would be prepared on his
A person such as Germaine Greer (Not British) spearheaded these movements and is arguably the most influential women in the Women’s Rights Movements. This gave women the confidence to stand up for their rights and achieve more than being a good cook or ironer. Women all over Britain started going to rallies to allow rights, and when Margaret Thatcher came to power in the 70s it was only a good thing as it showed that they were making progress as she was the first female prime minister. After this major milestone women didn’t want to stay at home, they wanted to get jobs that traditionally they would be laughed at for even mentioning. Although this was a good thing for women, for Britain as a whole it posed problems, Problems such as an increase in divorce rates which meant that the nuclear family ideology was become less common and it was single parents with children. Today divorce is a part of society and thousands of divorces get filed every year. The percentage of divorce in 2012 is 2.8% for every 1000 marriages. But divorces have been more common in the present compared to midway in the 1900s because women felt scared to stand up to the male in the relationship. But since the 1960s divorce has increased nearly every
If you ask a person over the age of 50 if they think that gay couples are acceptable, then it has been shown that people over that age find it an awkward subject and don’t think it is acceptable. This is not people being discriminative to the gay community but because it wasn’t really seen fifty years ago but nowadays the tolerance for the gay community is being more acceptable and this is because it has been integrated into society. Events such as Gay Pride has made Britain more knowledgeable and open minded towards the gay community. Again, this is great for the gay community but it can be seen as bad for the nuclear family idea. As same sex marriages are more common now it eliminates the Mother and Father role and turns the roles into same sex roles such as Mother, Mother roles and Father, Father roles. This makes Britain more diverse compared to countries in Africa where due to religion the act of homosexuality is seen as a