What does the modern family look like?
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An excerpt from Family Life Survey annex to ‘Family and its Protective Effect: Part 1 of the Independent Family Review’.
Household composition
The parent and child sample used for these analyses is nationally representative for the UK by oldest child’s age, gender, household region and parental employment status. The adults without children sample is weighted by adult age and gender.
Adults who are parents
On average, family households across the UK have two adults (2.0 adults in England and Scotland, 2.1 in Wales and 1.9 in Northern Ireland, this includes any adult, not restricted to parents). Across all households in this sample, 16% reported including one adult, 72% had two adults, 8% had three adults within the household. The largest number of adults living with the responding parent in this sample was six adults (n=5).
Most parents were either married (60%), co-habiting (20%) or civil partnered (1%) and also listed a married husband or wife (57%) or co-habiting partner (19%) a...
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