Australia (New Zealand) Developmental changes Australia has changed over the years with family structure, climate, economic, land mass, and social changes. Australia has changed because they are no longer having a growth of traditional family structures. The parents are no longer stay married to their children’s biological parent like they did in the old days. Many of the families have an exceptional amount of parents because either both of the parents have remarried or have been divorced. In Australia in the past days they didn’t normally divorce or remarry after they became widowed or divorced. In many of the families 30% are single parent homes because they never marry.

In addition, the economic and social changes are due to the changes within their families. Young people are delaying marriage and relationships due the prolonging of their education. They feel as though being educated and financially stable is more important than their social lives. Women who have children are now working harder and using child care instead of raising their children full-time. Being that women and young adults are increasing their education all socioeconomic levels and economic independence has shifted attitudes about intimate and appropriate family roles and responsibility.

Additionally, climate change is has drastically changed because the warming of the climate has become unequivocal. There are thoughts that humans are very likely the cause of the warming which has been occurring since the 1950s. The climate changes in the global climate system will continue well into the future, and they will be larger than those seen in the past. The climate has the potential to make a major impact on natural systems and humans throughout Australia. The climate change in Australia is based upon the international climate change research.