Family diversity

Family diversity

👥 Rapoport and Rapoport (1982): identify five types of diversity: organisational, cultural, social class, life-stage, and generational.
- Postmodernists argue diversity is greater and more complex than their categories suggest.
👤 Chester (1985): claims most people still live in a nuclear family at some point, but it has adapted into the neo-conventional family where both partners work.
- Underestimates long-term changes and diversity in family life.
New Right 👤 Murray (1984) criticises lone-parent families for encouraging welfare dependency and poor socialisation outcomes.
- Stereotypes certain groups and ignores structural inequalities

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