Over the whole country in the mid-fifties the average family size was 2.3; the lowest unskilled workers and the very poor tended still to have the larger families ,but in a reversal of the trend of the previous half-century, most working-class families were having the smallest number of children, whereas middle-class and upper-class parents were beginning to have slightly larger families. Of all children born in 1955,5 per cent were illegitimate.
It was a commonplace of British sociology at the time that everywhere was converting the extended family of earther times into isolated nuclear unit.In my opinion,this is because the developing of techology, it is no difficult to connect relations by mobile,internet and developed transpot in any case.so people also choice to live in a freedom place without parents and grandparents together.
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Hi Riva
Well done for finding information to answer my questions. Your research has shown that families have indeed become smaller.
Do you think communications technology helps to keep families together even though they may live far apart?
dear annie,
i am very happy to discuss some idear with you here.
i really think that the communications technology such as the mobile or some internet soft can help us to keep families and friends together,for example i am studying in uk which country is far away from my country now, but i am not homesick,because i can see and talk with my parents and my friends everyweek through microphone and camera.I can get much news happened in my hometown,and so as them.
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