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working on piece about the changing nature of households/families in UK and looking for people who fit these particular scenarios for interview/photo shoot....(it's a 'nice' monthly magazine, copy approval given)


So, if you are:


part of a (male) gay couple who have entered into a civil partnership


are a couple whose grown up kids have moved back to the family home for financial reasons - can't afford rent, saving up for deposit on property etc (if you're the 'grown up' who has moved back home please get in touch too)


you are a woman in your forties or fifties and you live alone


You are a stay at home dad - you've given up your job/put your career on hold in order to stay home and look after the kids whilst your partner goes out to work


Many thanks


Emc

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Hi


Yes of course (latest stats show that there are now 7 million people living alone in UK and just as likely to be men as women) but the reason I am asking for a woman is because,in general, we tend to only feature women's stories in the mag (as it's a women's mag)


However we're looking for a gay (male) couple because it seems that more gay men have entered into civil partnerships than gay women so is more reflective of what is going on.

To be fair to emc, single mothers is hardly a recent demographic trend and their share of households has remained static since the 1980s.


Emc I think that a major demographic change that hasn't been fully thought through yet is the fact that the average age of becoming a mum for the first time is rising rapidly and especially so among the middleclasses....check out all the 40 somethings with babies in SE22...



....er if you want to talk to a wrong half of 40s omething dad with pre-school kids...then I'm your man

I agree it sounds like there is nothing new in this. You missed out the growing number of childfree couples too, both gay and straight. How is it changing? What IS a "household"? What's so specific about "these days" that's making change from say, ten years back? It just doesn't sound - new enough?

Women live alone because they want to? Men live alone because they can't find women to live with them?

Discuss.

But that is why so many more flats are needed and are being built because in this busy London life we live, we want to come back to some peace quiet and solitary time.

If you want a female couple for your female magazine then go find some.

And by the way what is a 'nice' womens magazine?

As distinct from what?

Just asking.

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