Changing family patterns
- Created by: FionnCremin
- Created on: 28-03-15 13:41
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- Changes in the patterns of family
- Cohabitation
- Increased cohabitation rates reflect the decline in stigma attached to sex outside marriage.
- The young are more likely to accept cohabitation, 88% 18-24 yr olds 'premarital sex is not wrong at all'- 40 over 65
- Increased career opportunities for women- less need for financial security
- Singletons
- Increase
- Chances in position of women
- Cohabitation
- Secularisation-decline in the influence of religion in society
- Decrease
- Remarriage
- Increase
- Lone parent
- Divorce- The number of divorces has doubled between 1960 & 1970 & doubled again by 1973. 7 out of 10 applications for divorce are from women. 1 in 2 marriages end in divorce
- one child in 4 lives in a lone-parent family
- The courts usually give custody of children to mothers
- HOWEVER, increase i male rights- paternity and lack of gender roles may change this
- Reconstituted
- Account for 10% of all british families
- As a result of Lone parents, and rise in divorce.
- Same sex
- Stonewall's campaign found that only5-7% of our population is gay.
- since 2002- cohabiting couples, same rights to adopt as married couples
- 2004 civil partnership act
- Weeks- increased social acceptance= reason for increased trend
- Cohabitation
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