Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Design for the Post Nuclear Family

I have also been working on developing some products for the post nuclear family. I think there is a certain amount of guilt associated with a couple who have children together breaking up nowadays, even though it is now completely normal. I think if products were available, either for the child, the parent or the house it would make the parents feel better. Parents often go on to start other families after a breakup, with each set of children having a large age gap in-between. This means they often have to alter aspects of their identity when dealing with each family. I think this is an interesting example of identity swapping occurring naturally, and it would be interesting to intervene and try to encourage this swapping.

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