Changing Patterns of the Family
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- Created on: 15-01-17 22:09
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- Changing Patterns of the family
- Divorce
- 2012- 1/2 of marriages ended in divorce
- Changes in society
- Changing role of women
- rising expectations of marriage
- growing secularization
- Changing social attitudes
- contraception
- growth of privatised nuclear family
- reduced functions of the family
- Increasing life expectancy
- Changes in Law
- Divorce Law Reform Act(1969)
- Made irretrievable break down marriage acceptable
- Matrimonial and family proceedings act (1984)
- Allows divorce after 1 year of marriage
- Family Law Act (1996)
- allows divorce after period of reflection
- Divorce Law Reform Act(1969)
- Cohabitiation
- 80% of married couples have previously cohabited
- Changing role of women
- Reduced functions of the family
- Changing social attitudes
- Growing Secularisation
- Reducing risk
- Living Apart Together Relationships (LATs)
- Levin 2004
- Increasing separation rate
- Socially acceptable
- Growing individualization
- Modern technology
- Long term but do not live together
- Haskey (2005) 30% of couples are in LAT relationships
- Younger
- Short term relationship
- More practical
- Older
- companionship
- monogamy
- independence
- burden of care
- Fear of rejection
- Levin 2004
- Lone Parenthood
- 23%
- Women are more likely to get custody after divorce
- Greater economic independence of women
- Improved contraception
- IVF
- Changing social attitudes
- Higher divorce rates
- THE NEW RIGHT
- More crime
- Divorce
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