The family can be defined as a group of individuals linked to one another through blood ties, marriage or adoption e.g. kinship, which forms an economic unit, the adult members of which are responsible for the upbringing of children.
The diversity within the family has now become an everyday feature of modern U.K. society. The dominance of the traditional Nuclear family (male breadwinner, female housewife and dependant children) has steadily eroded over the second half of the twentieth century. This now on
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