An article examined changes over the previous twenty years in the living arrangements of young men and women aged 16-34, and how the proportions living with their parents differed by geographical region, education, and economic activity.
Source: Ann Berrington, Juliet Stone and Jane Falkingham, 'The changing living arrangements of young adults in the UK', Population Trends 138, Winter 2009, Office for National Statistics
Links: Article | Southampton University press release | Guardian report
Date: 2009-Dec
A report examined family trends in recent historical context. Separate chapters dealt with: major demographic trends; mothers, childcare, and work-life balance; fathers' involvement in family life; parent-child relationships; and economic recession and family relationships.
Source: Stephen Hunt (ed.), Family Trends: British families since the 1950s, Family and Parenting Institute (020 7424 3460)
Links: Summary | Conservative Party press release | Guardian report | BBC report | Children & Young People Now report
Date: 2009-Nov
A report for the equal rights watchdog outlined the ethnic composition of families using the Labour Force Survey household data. It explored whether adults from different ethnic groups were living with someone from the same ethnic group, with someone from a different ethnic group, or on their own. It also looked at the experience of children living with parents of the same or different ethnic groups (relative to each other and to the child). In the light of the growth in the number of those defining themselves as having mixed or multiple ethnicities, the prevalence of adults and children of mixed ethnicity was also summarized. There was a new and growing diversity among young people that made the concepts of 'black' and 'white' increasingly hard to define.
Source: Lucinda Platt, Ethnicity and Family: Relationships within and between ethnic groups – An analysis using the Labour Force Survey, Equality and Human Rights Commission (web publication only)
Links: Report | EHRC press release | Observer report | Telegraph report
Date: 2009-Jan