Editing Culture of France (section)

===Household structure===
Growing out of the values of the Catholic Church and rural communities, the basic unit of French society was traditionally held to be the family.<ref>Kelley, "Family", 100.</ref> Over the twentieth century, the "traditional" family structure in France has evolved from various regional models (including [[extended families]] and [[nuclear family|nuclear families]]<ref>Emmanuel Todd, Hervé Le Bras, ''L'invention de la France : atlas anthropologiue et politique'', chapter "Les grandes familles"</ref>) to, after World War II, [[nuclear family|nuclear families]]. Since the 1960s, marriages have decreased and divorces have increased in France, and divorce law and legal family status have evolved to reflect these social changes.<ref>''Ibid''.</ref>

According to [[INSEE]] figures, household and family composition in [[metropolitan France]] continues to evolve. Most significantly, from 1982 to 1999, [[single parent household|single parent families]] have increased from 3.6% to 7.4%; there have also been increases in the number of [[unmarried couple]]s, childless couples, and single men (from 8.5% to 12.5) and women (from 16.0% to 18.5%). Their analysis indicates that "one in three dwellings are occupied by a person living alone; one in four dwellings are occupied by a childless couple.."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insee.fr/en/ffc/chifcle_fiche.asp?ref_id=NATTEF02313&tab_id=31|title=Insee − Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|website=Insee.fr|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref>