Community Community Indian Sameera Cultural Obaid, a P7Centre P16 Qatari writer, organises its 22nd believes literature Annual Classical should be used to Dance Festival bring positive changes ‘Natyanjali’. in people’s lives. Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Jumada I 19, 1441 AH Doha today: 120 - 200 The family in 2050 COVER STORY The world may be looking at artificial wombs, robot carers and the rise of single fathers by choice. P4-6 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Bollywood’s 700cr club: New Gomez with 165mn Insta followers reality or one-time strike? brings fi rst great pop album. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, January 14, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 5am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.23am Zuhr (noon) 11.44am Asr (afternoon) 2.45pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.06pm Isha (night) 6.36pm USEFUL NUMBERS Darbar ethics’. 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Once the 5k is over, the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a larger-than-life party equipped with music, dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, and more massive colour throws, which create millions of vivid colour combinations. Gems and Jewels Exhibition WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 TIME: 9am onwards After School Activities Open Evening The exhibition comes in celebration of WHERE: Atelier WHERE: Cafeteria Stenden University the Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture and WHEN: Ongoing Qatar presents a look at magnifi cent gems and Music and arts activities for students WHEN: January 22 jewellery from India. 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Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C-Ring Road Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, January 14, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Fast forward to 2050 Technology and economics could radically change our understanding of the family in years to come — and deepen inherited privilege, writes Emine Saner n 2004, when the year 2020 sounded futuristic, the What we’re finding is that Guardian predicted it would by now be “very hard” to talk about a “typical family”. Domestic units family structure is actually less would be formed in myriad ways and “children living with both their biological parents in the same important for children than the Ihousehold” would be in the minority. This hasn’t quite panned out. In the UK today, 84% quality of relationships within of babies are born to parents who are married, in a civil families. And also the social partnership or co-habiting, although the statistics don’t reveal all the real-life complexities (many of the parents acceptance of their family in will be starting second families, for instance). In 2019, 61% of families with dependent children have married the wider world. Families are or civil-partnered parents (the children may not be biologically related to both). In the US, fewer than half of changing and it’s not necessarily children are living with two biological parents who are in a bad thing for children or their fi rst marriage. We correctly predicted that, in heterosexual parents couples, an increasing number of women would be the breadwinner, but don’t imagine these are all high- earning women easily carrying the fi nancial burden; ‘ most are low-earners, and the fi gures include single — Susan Golombok, Director, mothers. And we said that fi nancial pressures on young Centre for Family Research at adults would lead to people staying at home for longer. There has been a 46.3% increase in the number of young Cambridge University adults living with their parents in the two decades to ’ 2019. Tuesday, January 14, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY But we overstated the attention we would be giving to the issue of how to care for an ageing population. “By 2020,” we predicted, “we will be in the middle of the debate on the care defi cit.” The crisis is still there, and growing, but it is one of those issues that has been overshadowed, and exacerbated, by Brexit (there are 104,000 EU citizens working as carers in the UK). And we understated the extent to which we would invite technology into our family lives. “Webcams might by 2020 be playing the role the telephone did in the 20th century, a vital communication link for families who might live hundreds of miles apart,” we predicted in 2004. This wasn’t wrong, but the quaint idea of “webcams” — this was three years before Apple launched its iPhone, and everyone started uploading photographs of their children to a new site called Facebook — doesn’t quite describe the proliferation of tech in everyday life. It’s certainly true that the family has changed immensely over the past few decades, and those trends are continuing. The number of people living alone is increasing, as is the number of women choosing not to have PROSPECTS: In future, babies could be born from artificial wombs. children, and we are having fewer children than before, too. “A key because of developments in assisted change in family structure since Advances in technology will create ever-bigger reproduction and people being the 1980s has been the rise of able to preserve eggs and sperm, childbearing within cohabitation,” ethical debates. So-called “designer babies” are more transgender people are having says Ann Berrington, professor of already a reality, with parents able to select embryos children after their transition.” She demography and social statistics says this is likely to increase in the at the University of Southampton.