Changing attitudes to marriage, divorce and family life
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- Changing attitudes to marriage, divorce and family life
- 1960's
- Sex before marriage was regarded as a sin
- People were expected to marry in church before they were 25
- Most marriages lasted for a life
- Most households had a husband, wife and children (nuclear family)
- Public homosexuals would often hide their sexual orientation because homosexual acts between adult males was a criminal offence
- How attitudes have changed
- Most people have sex before marriage
- Accepted that people live together before marriage (cohabit)
- Most households are not headed by a married couple
- The average ages for marriage has increased
- Divorce is accepted
- Extended family is becoming more popular as more mothers are in paid employment
- Single parent families have increased
- More families are being brought up by cohabiting parents
- Re-constituted families are growing as more people divorce and re-marry
- Homosexual sex in private between two consenting adults over 21 was made legal in 1967
- Homosexual sex is now treated the same as heterosexual sex
- Civil partnership act 2004 and equal marriage in the UK 2013
- 1960's
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