Child Bearing

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  • Child Bearing, Lone Parenthood and Remarriage
    • Changes in child bearing
      • Families have been getting smaller
      • Number of births have been dropping
      • Women have been delaying having children until they are older
      • More women are choosing to remain childless
      • Couples decide to delay having children
      • Couples may decide to have no children
      • Nearly half of all births in England and Wales are now outside of marriage/ civil partnership
    • Lone Parenthood
      • The Greater economic independence of women
      • Fewer 'shotgun weddings'
      • Changing male attitudes, fell less responsibility if they get someone pregnant
      • Reproductive technology is available to women; sperm banks and artificial insemination and IVF
      • *New Right Views on Lone Parents*, Charles Murray believes that welfare benefits encourage women to have children outside of marriage
        • Call lone parents 'promiscuous parasites'
        • Believe that without a male role model children will not be properly socialised
      • Never married mothers account for just over half of lone parents, with the other half coming from divorce and death.
    • Remarriage and the step-family
      • Around a third of marriages now involve a remarriage for one or both partners
      • A lot more divorced men remarry than divorced women
      • When divorcees get married, the often create re-constituted or step families
        • Life in stepfamilies, Allan pointed out that life in step families can be complex,
          • Example: Children may feel greater loyalty and closer to their natural parents.
          • There may also be divisions between children when there are two sets of children from previous families

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