Changing Family Patterns
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- Created on: 20-02-23 16:34
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- Changing family patterns 5.1
- Marriage trends
- 1.fewer people are getting married 2. There are more remarriages 3. People are getting married later in life 4. Couples are less likely to get married in church
- Reasons for this:
- Changes in norms and attitudes = less pressure to get married. Plastic sexuality and pure reationship
- Secularistation = Not much religious influence
- Decline in stigma
- CPOW
- Fear of divorce
- Increase in remarriages
- Age of marriage is increasing
- Church weddings and on the decline
- Cohabitation
- Fastest growing family type
- Allan and Crow = points out the difficulty in researching cohabiting couples as the moving in together is often unreliable.
- Why has it increased
- Changing attitudes towards sex
- Decline in social stigma
- Changes in mortgage applications
- CPOW - financial independency of women
- Same-sex relationship
- Same-sex relationship - 5-7 % Stonewall are in this relationship
- Civil Partnership Act = Equally treated to hetrosexual couples in terms of: tax, employment benefits, protection of domestic abuse, immigration, parental responsibility, pensions and property
- Single person households
- By 2033, over 30% of the population will be single
- Reasons for this: divorce and separation has increased, Individualisation, 'creative singlehood', care homes are too expensive and CPOW
- Marriage trends
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