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This chapter attempts to identify the agencies at work in modern society which promote nuclear family living. Different perspectives on the virtues of this form of family are examined and the assumptions about individual freedom and obligation underpinning these are explored. Recent evidence about an increase in diversity in family living offers an opportunity for alternative theories of modern family life to be articulated, and these are the subject of the chapter’s concluding section.
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© 1996 Tony Bilton, Kevin Bonnett, Pip Jones, David Skinner, Michelle Stanworth, Andrew Webster
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Bilton, T., Bonnett, K., Jones, P., Skinner, D., Stanworth, M., Webster, A. (1996). Theorising Modern Family Life. In: Introductory Sociology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24712-7_15
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