Ninety-nine percent of family business articles tend to justify their studies by stating that the majority of businesses in the world are family firms and often assume that family is defined as a nuclear or extended traditional family bound by socio-legal obligations. However, sociologists have extensively explained how various changes—cultural, economic, social, political, and demographic—have influenced the formation, arrangement, and meaning of different family configurations. Research and government reports have primarily documented the phenomenon of decreasing marriages and increasing divorces, as well as the impact of new alternative living arrangements on public opinions and social behaviors. This includes same-sex marriages, single-parent families, different/same-sex common-law couples, and post-divorce and blended families. Family science scholars have also highlighted the rise and prevalence of stepfamilies compared to first-marriage families.
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