The size of family in Britain

Family is a place where some or many people live altoghether their life.There are two types of families .These are: 1.Nuclear family and another is extended family.More or less ,there are some family size in britain.Most of the part,people of britain like nuclear family.They would like to live separetely.On the other side ,some ageing classes people live in uk. Now I would like to get back about kinship people.Kinship is the grouping of adults and children who are not necessarilly living toghether in the same house.
The family in Britain is changing. The once typical British family headed by two parents has undergone substantial changes during the twentieth century. In particular there has been a rise in the number of single-person households, which increased from 18 to 29 per cent of all households between 1971 and 2002. By the year 2020, it is estimated that there will be more single people than married people. Fifty years ago this would have been socially unacceptable in Britain.
In the past, people got married and stayed married. Divorce was very difficult, expensive and took a long time. Today, people's views on marriage are changing. Many couples, mostly in their twenties or thirties, live together (cohabit) without getting married. Only about 60% of these couples will eventually get married.
In the past, people married before they had children, but now about 40% of children in Britain are born to unmarried (cohabiting) parents. In 2000, around a quarter of unmarried people between the ages of 16 and 59 were cohabiting in Great Britain. Cohabiting couples are also starting families without first being married. Before 1960 this was very unusual, but in 2001 around 23 per cent of births in the UK were to cohabiting couples.
People are generally getting married at a later age now and many women do not want to have children immediately. They prefer to concentrate on their jobs and put off having a baby until late thirties.
The number of single-parent families is increasing. This is mainly due to more marriages ending in divorce, but some women are also choosing to have children as lone parents without being married.
On average 2.4 people live as a family in one home Britain. This is smaller than most other European countries.
Two children remains the most common family size in England and Wales. Over one-third (37 per cent) of women reaching age 45 in 2006 (that is, those born around 1961) had a completed family size of two children. Childlessness has been on the increase in recent years. Nearly one in five women born in 1961 was childless, compared with one in ten women born around 1941. The proportion of women having three or more children has fallen, from nearly four in ten women born in 1941 to only three in ten women born in 1961.
Sources: Office for National Statistics, General Register Office for Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency.
Some information from websites which give me specific information about family life in Great Britain.