https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/2020.madeleinebunting
Answer the following questions to Part 1
1. What is meant by a “nuclear family”? What do you think is “extended family”?
2. What are the researchers agreed upon?
3. What has been the most marked characteristic of families since the 1960s?
4. What are the main trends concerning the family?
5. Give figures related to divorce in Britain. How does divorce affect children? What do you think a “good divorce” means?
6. How are our attitudes to these family trends changing?
7. What are the changes in women’s patterns of employment? How are they affecting relationships?
8. What is the norm in families now in terms of employment? What is the shift towards greater women’s employment restricted by?
9. What has changed about parenting? Do you agree?
10. Give figures to prove that financial dependency is growing longer. What are the reasons?
11. What does delinking of genetic material and parenthood mean? What’s the public opinion in Britain to reproductive technologies?
