Child Bearing
- Created by: GeorgeBarton
- Created on: 12-04-16 10:20
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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
- Life in stepfamilies, Allan pointed out that life in step families can be complex,
- Changes in child bearing
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