Changes In The Family
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- Created on: 30-04-19 17:59
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- Changes with the Family
- Marriage
- Reasons for the decrease in marriage
- Changes in Women's positions
- People are getting married later on in life
- Secularisation
- More accepting to different family types
- Fear of divorce
- Different types of marriages increasing
- Reasons for the decrease in marriage
- Divorce
- Reasons for the increase in divorce(non theoretical)
- Changes in Law
- laws made it easier but undermined the way of living in society
- Alternatives to divorce
- disertion-one partner leaves the other but the couple remain legally married
- legal separation-court separates financial and legal affairs of couple but remain married
- empty shell marriage-continue to live under the same roof but remain married in name only
- Alternatives to divorce
- laws made it easier but undermined the way of living in society
- Declining stigma and changing attitudes
- Stigma-refers to the negative label, social disapproval or shame attached to a person, action or relationship
- Secularisation
- decline in the influence of religion, which is identified by the PM theory
- Rising expectations of marriage
- Fletcher-found that pressure to find 'Mr and Mrs Right' leads to more divorce
- Feminism-believe pressure=oppression. Radical fem. would say to move towards political lesbianism
- Women's increased financial independence
- welfare system-welfare benefits mean they are no longer dependent
- employment-most likely to be in paid work
- girls get better grades-doing well in school is allowing them to get top jobs
- laws and legislation-equal pay and anti discrimination have helped narrow pay gap
- Changes in Law
- Reasons for increase in divorce(theoretical)
- Feminism
- Dual burden
- Marriage remains patriarchal
- Mochschild-women feel more valued at work
- most women initiate divorce
- Bernard-feel a growing dissatisfaction with patriarchal marriage
- Post Modernism
- individual thesis
- Beck+Giddens-traditional norms lose their hold over individuals, so become free to pursue their own self interest
- Pure relationship
- Individualism
- Self interests
- individual thesis
- Feminism
- Reasons for the increase in divorce(non theoretical)
- Cohabitation
- two people in an intimate relationship living in the same household but not married and no children
- Reasons for the increase in cohabitation
- relationships are more negotiable-equal dominance
- Young and Wilmott-March of Progress
- less stigma
- Judith Stacey-family is diversed and fluid
- women are no longer dependent
- secularisation
- lack of value of marriage
- fear of divorce
- unable to afford marriage
- relationships are more negotiable-equal dominance
- Reasons for the increase in cohabitation
- two people in an intimate relationship living in the same household but not married and no children
- Childbearing
- Reasons for the decline in childbearing
- no longer a priority in stead career and education-Sue Sharpe
- less stigma for not having children or having them later
- birth control, more options e.g IVF, surrogates, freezing sex cells
- secularisation
- less stigman on out of marriage
- Reasons for the decline in childbearing
- Ethinic Differences in family patterns
- Black Families
- black Caribbean and African have higher proportion of lone parent households
- high rate of female headed lone parent families
- Asian Families
- Bangladesh, Pakistani's and Indian households tend to be larger than other ethnic groups
- Black Families
- Domestic Division of Labour
- Anne Oakley-gender role socialisation
- Rapoport and Rapoport(1970)-career women="wives and mothers"
- David Morley-women see the home as a place of work, men a place of leisure
- Domestic violence
- Dobash and Dobash(Radical fems)
- marriage legitimises violence against women
- New Right
- only occurs in dysfunctional family
- rise in cohabitation and divorce leads to it
- happens in lower class families
- Anthony Giddens
- caused by the emotional intensity i.e pressure to fulfil neeeds, and parental role
- Richard Wilkinson
- Result of stress caused by social inequality, worries about money, jobs, and housing
- Dobash and Dobash(Radical fems)
- Marriage
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