Statistic of family

Diversity of family

In Britain, 26% of dependent children were headed with lone-parent family in 2000, while there was only 7% in 1971. (Social Trends, 2002)

There are 75% of women in working age were economically active in 2000. 17% of women see their occupation as "take care of family." in 1991, and it has been declined to 13% in 2001.(Social Trends, 2002)

From 1970 to 2005, the proportion of women in paid employment had raise from 56% to 70%.(Social Trends.2007)

The above could be used to show the increasing lone-parents, women are economically independent, women see successful career as a alternative to traditional role as mothers and child-raisers.

The Civil Partnership Act in 2005 which grant same-sex couples same identical rights and responsibilities as opposite-sex married couples. There were 18,059 civil partnership in 2005 and 2006.

24% of non-married people under 60 were cohabiting in 2005 in the Britain, which is around twice the proportion in 1986.( Social Trends,2007)

The Divorce Reform Act in 1969 involved a major change in divorce. In 1969, the number of divorce in England and Wales was 51,310. In 1972, it increased to 119,025 and in 2006, it was 132,562. (Office of National Statistics.)


Nuclear family

Anderson found there is 23% of family contain kin beyond nuclear family based on data from 1851 in Preston of Lancashire.

During 1961 to 2006, the proportion of household that made up of couple with dependent children had declined from 38% to 22%. ( Office of National Statistics, 2007)

The majority of British children still live with couple headed household, 76% in 2006 compared to 92% in 1970. ( Social Trends. 2006)

Ethnic

In 2001, 48% of African-Caribbean families with dependent children were lone-parent families, compared to 22% for Britain as a whole. ( Social Trends, 2007)

Around 20% are extended families in Asia, a higher proportion than the other groups. (Westwood and Bhachu, 1988)
The above could be used to show ethnic groups have their own subcultures which differ from the mainstream culture)

Over the past 40 years, people had tended to marry later. In 1976, the average age for first marriage for men is 25 and 23 for women, in 2005, it was 32 for men and 29 for women.