Changing families: The post-nuclear age

An article in The Economist has highlighted CPC research, looking at how family life has changed in recent years.

The article looks at the British family as having splintered, with three broad family types, identified with the university-educated professional classes, the native working classes and immigrants, pointing to CPC research around fertility and family formation.

In related research, CPC researchers Dieter Demey, Ann Berrington, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham have been looking at the reasons why more people are living alone in middle age, and have recently published findings which have found that it is not only important to contemplate the increase, but also the reasons why more people are living alone. Changes in family life, such as decreasing marriage and increasing cohabitation, imply that the past family experiences of those living alone in mid-life will be very diverse.

Read the full article on The Economist.

The full study details are available in Advances in Life Course Research and in the CPC Briefing Paper 'How has mid-life changed in Britain since the 1980s?

Posted 19/03/2013 10:33