Most adults continue to marry and have children. Their two natural parents raise most of the children. Most marriages continue until death. Divorces have increased, but most divorcees remarry. Gender roles in feminism are socially determined and not fixed by biology. Traditional gender roles are oppressive to women. The fact that divorce is easier for feminism is a good thing because without it many women end up trapped in unhappy or abusive relationships. Most single parents are not welfare scroungers, most would like to work but have difficulty finding jobs that are flexible enough to balance work and childcare so as not to find themselves in a situation of role conflict. Chester argues that the New Right exaggerates the scope of cohabiting and single-parent families; most children still spend much of their lives in a nuclear family
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