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- Title
Australian families in transition.
- Authors
Weston, Ruth; Stanton, David; Qu, Lixia; Soriano, Grace
- Abstract
In Australia, the family has undergone increasingly rapid change over the past century. This change has carried profound implications for people individually, and for economic and social policy more generally. Many broad social trends have affected families. The population increased more than fivefold over the past 100 years, changed from youthful to ageing, and from Anglo-Celtic to multicultural in its make-up; about 20 years were added to life expectancy, and living standards improved, especially after 1940. Other factors affecting family trends include education and employment patterns, economic recessions, wars, migration flows, technological advances, changes in gender roles, welfare support trends, globalization, and changing social attitudes. In turn, family trends have themselves influenced some of these factors including the ageing of the population and social attitudes. Thus, families living in the early, middle and late periods of the 20th century had widely differing experiences. The approach adopted in this article is to focus on changing patterns of common family transitions that have profound effects on each family member and on the structure of the family as a whole.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; FAMILIES; CHANGE; SOCIAL policy; LIFE expectancy; COST of living; EMPLOYMENT; EDUCATION; SOCIAL attitudes
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 60, p12
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article