the structure of family in the United Kingdom

The history of family has changed enormous in the United Kingdom since 1945. Modern England has differed about the concept in family in which compare with traditional family no matter is the character of family, the relationship in household as well as the power in Britain family. Meanwhile, it also has been appearing a variety type of family, and structures also tend to smaller and smaller. For the sake of know more about the Britain family changing, the following part will utilize social sciences disciplines to explain and analyses in this complicated circumstance.

In the traditional England society, people were not held the traditional value in marriages which were permanent fixture in life (Hakim, 2003). However, as time as ago marriage no longer in last which might just is a temporary relationship between the couples. At the end of 1950s, divorce started an increase trend although the law were no change in there(S-cool Youth Marketing, 2014). According to The guardian (2012) reported that divorce could not help to remain an upward tendency since 1945. In 2012, the population of divorce reached 118,140 which was a lightly more than four times as much as the divorce rate in 1950s, at 30,870 (The guardian, 2012). The population of divorce appeared twice then three times of declining but had a downward tendency of marriages meanwhile (Figure 3, The Guardian, 2012). There were a perpetual commitment toward marriage, according to figure one show that before 1950 were nearly zero percentages of divorce in England and Wales (The guardian, 2012).

Marriages were necessary for girls as essential as a whole career in life at traditional value (Hub Pages, 2014). Recently, co-habitation has become common, but it was extremely unaccept...

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...at lead woman in marriage expectancy being a downward trend as marriage were not an only choice in life.

In conclusion, the structure of family became smaller and woman position has changed may contribute to diversity social disciplines which included social sciences, political as well as history. In analyse which social values changed, economic and history can explain the structure became smaller in the family. On the other hand, woman position has change in education and workplace become more equal, also the political changed. Both of the analyses use political sciences to illustrate the changing of household. Social science is also important which is to decide the human behaviour and attitude in life. As history, is to explore human event as behaviours and values in past. All of those social sciences are effective to be an analyst in family changing.