Changing Family Patterns - Divorce
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- Changing Family Patterns - Divorce
- Rising Expectations of Marriage
- Fletcher (1966)
- Higher expectations of marriage are a major cause in rising divorce rates
- Takes optimistic view - more divorces means more remarriages
- Feminists say this ignores oppression of women within the family,. Functionalists fail to explain why primarily women seek divorce
- Allan and Crow (2001)
- Love, commitment and satisfaction are the basis of modern marriage.
- Not being satisfied is justification enough to end a marriage
- Love, commitment and satisfaction are the basis of modern marriage.
- Allan and Crow (2001)
- Allan and Crow (2001)
- Love, commitment and satisfaction are the basis of modern marriage.
- Not being satisfied is justification enough to end a marriage
- Love, commitment and satisfaction are the basis of modern marriage.
- Fletcher (1966)
- Women's financial independance
- Women today are much more likely to be in paid work
- Availability of welfare means that women don't have to be dependant on husbands
- Allan and Crow
- Family is no longer a unit of production, so spouses are not dependant on each other.
- Modernity and Idividualisation
- Beck (1992) and Giddens (1992)
- In modern-day society, traditional norms lose power over people
- Giddens
- 'Pure relationship'
- Exists solely to fulfill partner's needs
- 'Pure relationship'
- Women having freedom can cause differences in interest between partners.
- Beck (1992) and Giddens (1992)
- Perspectives
- The New Right
- Divorce undermines marriage, and the nuclear family
- Divorce is likely to create a generation who are dependant on welfare, and without male role models, supposedly leading to academic failure and higher crime
- Feminists
- Shows women breaking free from opressive relationships
- Postmodernists
- Shows individuals having the freedom to end a relationship they are not happy in.
- Funcionalists
- Result of people's higher expectations of marriage. Growth in remarriage shows people's continued faith in marriage as an institution.
- Interactionists
- Morgan (1996)
- We cannot generalise about divorce, as every experience is different.
- Morgan (1996)
- The New Right
- Rising Expectations of Marriage
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