divorce
- Created by: georgiajane27
- Created on: 23-03-21 17:30
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- divorce is desirable because it shows women are breaking free from oppression of patriarchal nuclear family
- there are more arguments between spouses now that women are in paid work
- Couples are more likely to have individual separate wages
- Girls are doing better in school
- Hochschild - Women are more likely to be in paid work reducing the pay gap
- Hochschild - Both partners working equals to less emotional support
- Women doing paid work, house work and childcare (triple shift) = conflict and divorce
- Previously, people had no choice but to regain love or to live without it
- Today, marriage is not seen so much as a binding contract to seek out personal fulfilment
- Alan & Crow - marriage isn't going perfectly so people think divorce justifies that
- Fletcher - Marriage isn't what people expected so they divorce easily
- Alternatives to divorce - desertation, legal separation, empty shell marriage
- Fear of divorce - divorce rates are rising so people are put off marriage
- Hochschild (1997) - at work, women feel valued whereas at home they feel pressured and frustrated
- Women and the triple shift - paid work, housework and childcare
- Girls do better at school
- Allan & Crow - Marriage isn't embedded on the economic system meaning spouses aren't dependant on each other
- delaying/having less children
- 40% of marriages end in divorce
- Partnerships - few people are getting married but there are more remarriages
- People marry at an older age
- Divorce means an increase in step families
- 1967/1971 Divorce law reform act.
- Marriage is still viewed positively by functionalists. Although increase in divorce, most people still marry and remarry, proving that people do not replace marriage with divorce
- Critics argue functionalists perspective towards marriage is rose tinted
- New right - divorce is undesirable as it undermines the traditional nuclear family, it creates the underclass of welfare dependant on female lone parents and leaves boys with no male adult role model
- Functionalists - high divorce doesn't mean marriage is under threat, simply the result of peoples higher expectations of marriage
- Postmodernists - divorce gives people freedom to choose to end marriage when it no longer suits
- Interactionalists - we can't generalise why people divorce, each reason differs
- People would rather invest in themselves alone
- As stigma declines, and divorce becomes more socially acceptable, couples become more willing to resort to divorce as it means solving their marital problems
- Secularisation - decline in religious influence on society as a result, the traditional opposition to divorce doesn't matter in church anymore
- cohabitation - living together in a sexual relationship but not married
- With the decline in marriages & increase in divorces, more couples cohabite.
- Due to decline in stigma, increased career and secularisation
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