Pension providers are currently being challenged in this way by the existence of new family forms.

Colin it's not for you just temptation of a family form.

In the colonial United States the nuclear family was the most common family form.

However, it would be difficult to argue that single parents are rebelling against the conventional family form in principle.

Even though this family form is not the most common, parents of both sexes can identify themselves with Alfie's father.

There are various family forms which are becoming increasingly popular in society.

New public policies emerged fitted to changing family forms and individual life cycles.

Some researchers have seen living apart together as a historically new family form.

"The law," Leonard went on to say, "has lagged far behind in taking account of nontraditional family forms."

Still others should be encouraged, not discouraged, from experimenting with communal and other family forms of the future.