While there is a tendency in the HIV and AIDS impact literature to describe household dissolution as a wholly negative event, such a characterisation fails to recognise that dissolution is an intrinsic part of the normative household life-cycle.
Where new typologies have been developed the authors have not considered why the classification of networks of older people from these cultures should differ from individualistically oriented countries (except Cheng et al. 2009), or how the network classifications may be used in a wider context (e.g. in other cultures with similar normative household forms).
Even for those of us who grew up in very hetero-normative households, "having it all" was hammered into our brains as the alternative by someone at some point, as was the notion that questioning this or similar beliefs was bad, somehow "un-feminist".
The diversity of normative family and household arrangements creates differences in the living arrangements of children whose parents become ill or die.
"God that sounds awful – can we do something about zombies instead?" But there is a sea-change coming, thanks as usual to cold-blooded commerce, as the way we watch telly has changed (in the hetero-normative household at least).
Primarily because it encourages us to consider how social, demographic and economic factors shape contemporary, normative families and households, with or without experiences of HIV and AIDS.
Results demonstrated that high-energy-consuming households receiving only descriptive normative information reduced their energy consumption, whilst low-energy consuming households receiving only the descriptive message showed a "boomerang" effect, whereby they increased their energy consumption post-baseline.
Norm: population based normative values.
Within many Asian cultures, the importance of multigenerational kin networks is well documented (Frankenberg, Lillard, & Willis, 2002) and the normative practice of extended family living arrangements may help to mitigate some of the transitions within transnational households.
Such findings possibly reflect the normative role of Zambian women as household food providers and their concurrent lack of control over household finances [ 52, 53].
Moreover, multigenerational households are another characteristic distinct from normative residency patterns that may be used to marginalise groups, whereby co-residency and assumed levels of social support are provided as a justification for reduced access to appropriate formal care services (Willis 2010).
