Divorce
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- Created on: 14-12-15 17:15
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- Divorce- Legal determination of marriage
- DIVORCE STATISTICS:
- Dramatic increase in number of divorces
- No. of divorces each year rose from 27,000 (1961) to a peak of 18,000 (1993)
- 1974: One divorce for every four marriages
- 2012: Two divorces for every four marriages
- Shows fewer people getting married, lower number of people married
- DS DON'T SHOW: No. people who are separated but not divorced. No. people who live in empty shell marriages. Amount of unstable marriages existed before divorce was made easier
- "Empty shell marriages"- Marital relationship broken down, couple continue to live together- No divorce
- REASONS FOR INCREASE IN DIVORCE RATE:
- Changes in law:
- Made divorce easier& cheaper to get
- Men& women have equal rights -Steep rise in 1970's &1980's
- 1911- 600 Divorces a year
- The Divorce Law Reform Act 1969
- The Matrimonial Act 1984- Increase in No. of divorce 1984 & 1985
- Changes in society:
- Changing role in women:
- Two-thirds of divorce-petitons are initiated to, and granted to women
- Less willing to accept patriarchal nature of marraiges
- Employment- norm for married women to have jobs- incraesed financial independence
- Welfare state benefits
- Rising expectations of marriage:
- Functionalist: Parson& Fletcher: Women demand more in relationship
- Growing Secularization
- Gibson (1994)- Marriage has become less of a sacred commitement
- Changing social attitudes:
- Post modernist: Beck- Gernstein (1995)- sees rising DR as product of growing individualization
- Greater individual freedom of choice
- Gidden (1993)- Confluent love have gained in significance, people less likely to stay with unsatisfactory partners- Personal fufilment
- Availability, more effective contraception:
- Increasing life expectancy:
- More time for marraiges to fo wrong
- Reduced functions of family:
- Marraiage has become less of a pratical necessity
- Changing role in women:
- Changes in law:
- DIVORCE STATISTICS:
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