Since the 1970s, many of the traditional idea on how children should be made and brought up have changed or evolved into new concepts that might have been a taboos or stigmatise in the 70s. The reason for and the result of these pattern range widely.
One of the greatest changed in childbearing is the growing rate of children born outside of marriage. over four in ten children are now born outside of marriage and that is five time more than it was in 1970, the reason being the fact that we Are now leaving in a seculisation society – so people are less religious and don`t regard marriage as something holy, therefore it is not a sin to have children outside marriage and this today has become part of the norm of society as people don`t look down on it anymore.
Another new trend tied to childbearing is that women are having children later in life or even not at all. Between 1971 and 2005 , women average age at the birth of their first child rose by more than three years to 27.3 years, It is predicted that a quarter of women born in 1973 will be childless when they reach the age of 45. The reason being that now women are more concentrate on making a life for themselves, whether be that they want to finished university first and concentrate on getting on their career path or working till they en=sure that they are financially stable, also one of the reason that women put their career first before the role of motherhood is that they don`t want to rely on men. Even that idea may lead them to believe that it create a more equal society and relationship in which gender role are almost non-existent.
On the other hand the lack of definite family structure may affect the children and the way they see society as a whole. Similarly, cohabiting couple that have children are not tie by the same concept as married couple, thus they ended up being lone parent, which is highlight as