Changing Family Patters
- Created by: Sarah Janes
- Created on: 21-04-13 14:32
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- Changing Family Patterns
- Decline in marriage
- 1972 highest no. of marriage 2007 smallest no. sinse records began.
- marriage- later in life or never at all, or ending marriage in divorce and nor remarrying.
- Cohabitation
- Permanents or long term relationships- not much different to married no ceremony
- More than 1/2 of all couples couples cohabit b4 marriage, not rejection, change of marriage practice.
- short term relationships no commitment
- 'trial marriages'; living together before marriage
- Permanents or long term relationships- not much different to married no ceremony
- Births outside of marriage
- Children from unmarried mothers were dissaproved by society and committed to mental asylums- last century
- More than a third of all births outside marriage (1995) - much of this related to cohabitation
- Features of divorce today
- Marry young more likely to divorce
- middle class less likely to divorce than working class (reverse from past divorce = expensive)
- Religious couples less likely to divorce- Catholics still forbid divorce
- Reasons for divorce rise
- legal changes reflecting and encouraging changes in moral attitudes
- Decline in religion in society- secularisation, marriage not as serious
- Divorce no longer social shame and disproval, religious society in past judging
- Decline in marriage
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