Changing Family Patterns
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- Created on: 12-04-19 11:07
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- Changing Family Patterns
- Decrease in Marriage
- In 2005, there were less than half the number of first-time marriages than in 1970
- Fewer people are marrying, currently the lowest rates since the 1920s
- People are marrying later
- Average age in the UK for first marriage is 32 for men, 30 for women
- Venues have changed
- Less couples are choosing to marry in a church (only 35% in 2005)
- Increase in Remarriage
- In 2005, 4 in 10 marriages were between men and women where one or both have been previously married
- Serial monogamy
- Increase in Cohabitation
- The fastest growing family type in the UK
- 3.3 million cohabiting couples
- Chester (1985): for most people. cohabitation is a process towards marriage
- Coast (2006): 75% of cohabiting couple expect to marry each other
- Bejin (1985): cohabitation among young people is a viable alternative arrangement to marriage
- Representing a conscious attempt to create a more personalised and equal relationship than conventional (patriarchal) marriage
- Giddens: pure relationships
- Beck: negotiated families
- The fastest growing family type in the UK
- Increase in Divorce
- Divorce Reform Act 1969
- Easier for one partner to leave the other
- Stacey (1989): women are the instigators of change
- Divorce-extended family
- Divorce Reform Act 1969
- Decrease in Childbearing
- Decline in the birth rate and total fertility rate
- BR: 29 (1900) to 12.1 (2018)
- TFR: Risen since 2001 but still lower than in the past
- Changing position of women
- Sarah Harper: women are more likely to pursue a career so put children on hold
- Equality laws
- Women's role in the family
- Decline in the birth rate and total fertility rate
- Increase in Single-Parent Families
- Now make up of 22% of families with children
- 90% are female-headed
- Pre-1990s: generally divorced women
- Post-1990s: single (never married) women
- Amato (2000): children are twice as likely to be in poverty
- New Right: single mothers are married to the state
- Increase in Same-Sex Couples
- Stonewall (2012): 5-7% of couples
- Giddens: pioneers of family diversity
- Ethnic Differences
- Family structure/type/size
- China's One-Child Policy
- Nazi's Pure Families
- Decrease in Marriage
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