Family Life

Family life in Britain has undergone a drastic change. Throughout the 20th Century, the British family that was headed by two parents has considerable changes. The number of single parent house hold is on the rise from 18% to 29%, especially in between the period from 1971 to 2002. It is prophesied the strength of the single parent will be more than married people. Five decades back, this system would have been totally unacceptable.
Previously, people got wedded and remain married. Getting a divorce was very difficult. Moreover it was very expensive and it took a great deal of time.

At present the view of the people on marriage are varying, a number of couples in the age group of twenties and thirties, live together (cohabit). Only sixty percent of their couples’s relationships end in marriage.

Previously, the parents got married before they had kids. Now nearly forty percent of the kids are born to unmarried (cohabit) parents. During the year 2000, a number of people in the age groups of 16 and 59 were cohabiting without getting married. These couples also started having families without getting married. Prior to the 1960, all these things were unusual, however in 2001, it has been found, that 23% of the kids were born to cohabiting parents.

Nowadays, people prefer to get married at a later age , and the present day woman are not in the mindset of having children immediately, they postpone up to the late thirties.

The strength of the single parent families is augmenting, this is chiefly due to the marriages culminating in divorce. There are also woman who prefer to have children and live as lone parent without getting married.

Food

Traditionally, the food in United Kingdom depends on lamb. Beef, pork, fish and chicken and are normally serves with potatoes and with one additional vegetable. Fish chips, pies, and sandwich are the most common and typical food similar to corny pasty, roasts and trifle dinners.

A number of Britain’s’ staple food have peculiar foods such as Toad-in-the-Hole and Bubble & Squeak.
Meat, potatoes, fish, flour, egos and butter are the staple food in the United Kingdom. Most of the foods are based on these items.

Some of the other major dishes in the United Kingdom are Roast Beef, Gammon Steak with egg, Yorkshire pudding, Bangers and Mash, Lancashire Hotpot, etc.

Dress

The formal dress codes in the UK are,

White tie or evening dress: A formal evening dress is worn for the state occasions, such as for Cambridge, oxford May and Commem balls, the Mansion house Banquet and Hunt balls.

Black tie, Diner Jacket or DJ: It is a semi formal evening wear, for private and public dinner parties. It is ideal for functions like, the final night of the dances, proms and school promos. On occasions like the Diplomatic balls, the black tie ha supplanted the white tie.

The formal daytime wear or Morning dress: The male member wore this dress for a wedding party, and in special functions like Royal Ascot.

Lounge Suits: It is a casual dress.

For drink parties between 6 pm to 8 pm, the woman wear the cocktail dress and wearing the dress below the knee is considered as ideal.

Sports

The United Kingdom is the birth place for a number of well-known sports like, Association football, golf, cricket, rugby (union and league), squash, badminton, tennis, hockey rounder, boxing, curling, snooker and billiards.
Cricket, ice hockey, horse racing, golf, swimming are some of the other popular sports.