Outline and critically evaluate the most significant crises, conflicts and changes in family formations in the last two decades (since 1990). Refer to your experience, in terms of changes in identity and identifications over time. To address this issue it is important to present evidence showing that there have been conflicts, crises and changes in society since 1990. It is widely understood there are many family formations. This implies ever-changing effects on society that bring us back to the family. This essay will discuss the social changes that occur within the family paying particular attention to single parenthood. It will look at changes relating to marriage, divorce, out-of-wedlock births and poverty and examine the extent to which these changes have had on British society since 1990, and also what these changes have meant for the family within it. Over the last twenty years, significant changes have occurred in the course of which the family is being formed. We have witnessed major changes in the demographic constitution of the family and public policies, especially in terms of formation and dissolution. As a result, there is much more diversity in people's domestic and living arrangements than there were in previous centuries. In recent decades it has been noted that life patterns among individuals conform less and less to the nuclear family model, so much so that some commentators argue that the family is in terminal decline. The increase in divorces, cohabitations, births outside of marriage and single-parent families calls into question the old certainties about family formation. (Kiernan, 1998) In society, the family is seen as... at the center of the paper... London: Family Policy Studies CentreGiddens, A. (2006) Sociology Fifth Edition.Polity Press Bridge Street: Cambridge Cheal, D. ( 1991) Family and the State of Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf: Hertfordshire Kiernan, K. Land, and Lewis, J. (1998) Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Britain Clarendon Press: Oxford Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood, Demography, 32: 299-318.Murray, C. (1996a) 'The emerging British underclass', in Lister, R (ed.) Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Development Debate.London: Institute of Economic AffairsMurray, C. (1996b) 'Underclass: the Crisis Deepes', in Lister, R (ed.) Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate.London: Institute of Economic AffairsDallos, R. (1991) Family Belief Systems, Therapy and Change,Milton Keynes: Open University Press