Considers feminist responses to functionalist and Marxist accounts of the family's role.

3.2 Diversity and social change

Examines the causes and consequences of changing marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and separation patterns.

Explores different family and household forms, including nuclear, extended, lone-parent, reconstituted, and single-person households.

May include other family/household forms like same-sex families and families of choice, depending on context and legal/regulatory restrictions.

Analyzes dimensions of family diversity, including organisational, cultural, and class diversity.