The Future of the Family

Whilst studying for my Politics of Gender final exam, I was taking another look at some of the reading for the term and came across this little nugget of interest in Dr Jennie Britsow's article “What future for the family? Behind the 'mommy wars' and the new politics of the family”:

“Families, it is generally agreed, are more complicated than they have ever been before. Long gone are the days of breadwinner dad, housewife mum, and the obligatory 2.4 children. The falling marriage rate and the high divorce rate, the declining fertility rate and the rising number of working mothers, the cultural tolerance of homosexuality, atheism, singledom, abortion, childlessness, artificial insemination, lone parenthood and what used to be called ‘living in sin’ all reflect a society in which, on the face of it, it no longer seems possible to take ‘the family’ for granted.”