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- Title
Changing Families in Australia.
- Authors
Gilding, Michael
- Abstract
This article maps out the dimensions of family change over the past one hundred years in Australia. In particular, it focuses upon the changing structure of households, and the panics and anxieties around families in the public sphere. Recurring anxieties around the family reflect the extent of family change over the past one hundred years. In the 1970s the marriage rate in Australia declined. Young people delayed marriage and having children. They increasingly entered into de facto relationships. Openly homosexual relationships became more widespread. The divorce rate spiraled. Sole-parent households proliferated. So did other household arrangements, such as stepfamilies and group households. Since the 1970s a growing body of research has demonstrated that even in the short course of Australian history since Federation, there have been substantial changes and variations in family structure and values. The wealthiest households produced many goods and services in the home, which are now purchased through the market. Households across the class spectrum consistently accommodated extended kin as required.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; FAMILIES; CHANGE; HOUSEHOLDS; PUBLIC sphere; MARRIAGE
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 60, p6
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article