... out-dated? The first, and dying type of family, taking up only 29.6% of all families (When in 1996 40% of households lived like this) in Great Britain is the Nuclear Family. Comprising a Mother, Father & Children. This slick family unit is in large decline, due to the nature of today's society; an increase in divorce, an increase of independence for women, a decline in marriage rates, all of these things contribute to its failure. The Family, politicians such as Margaret Thatcher told us that this was the root of Britain, the key to its success, the most important 'social institution'. It is still widely viewed as the stereotypical family even though it is in such steady decline. After the death of the typical extended family after the Industrial Revolution the nuclear family flourished, becoming the most common in 20th Century Great Britain, but it now is in decline, its ...

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