CHANGING FAMILY PATTERNS
Recent decades have seen major changes in pat-
terns of family formation and stability in many
Western societies [10]. Families are formed later,
and are smaller, than in the past; fewer parents
marry, and more divorce; and many more women
now return to work outside the home when their
children are young. As a result, more children
today experience out of home and other non-
parental care in early childhood, and many also
face transitions in their family lives: parental sep-
aration and divorce are often followed by periods
in single-parent households, and subsequently by
the establishment of new step families.
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