Divorce
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 19-04-14 15:43
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- Divorce
- Changes in divorce
- 7 out of 10 petitions for marriage come from women
- 150,000 divorces a year a 6th more than 1971
- Explanations of the increase in divorce
- Changes in the law
- Equalising the grounds for divorce between the sexes
- Widening the grounds for divorce
- Making divorce cheaper
- Other solutions to the problem
- Desertion, where one partner leaves the other but the couple remain legally married
- Legal separation, where a court separates the financial and legal affairs of the couple but where they remain married and are not free to re-marry
- "Empty-Shell", where the marriage continues, they live together but the want to be married is gone (usually stay in separate beds)
- Declining stigma and changing attitiudes
- The public attitudes on divorce has meant more people accept the thought of it
- It becomes more socially accpetable
- People agree with it more because there is more of a pursuit of romantic love and women are now more independent
- Changes in the position of women
- Women today are more likely to be in paid work
- The Equal Pay Act of 1970 meant women are paid the same as men
- Better girls success in education means that girl will get a better career and better pay
- Welfare benefit means that women don't need to be fianically dependant on their husbands
- Secularisation
- As the influence and involvement of Churches within the modern culture, many of their beliefs become less intertwined with our lives
- 43% of people with no religion were cohabiting
- Churches have also become more relaxed on the subject, showing slack means those who are religious may get a divorce too
- As the influence and involvement of Churches within the modern culture, many of their beliefs become less intertwined with our lives
- Rising expectations of marriage
- Fletcher
- Higher expectations on marriage such as romantic love means that more people want a happy relationship
- If its failing they don't try to make it work, they just divorce
- He is optimistic that re-marriage is on the rise with many divorcee's remarrying - they are not dismissing the whole marriage option
- Higher expectations on marriage such as romantic love means that more people want a happy relationship
- Fletcher
- Changes in the law
- The meaning of high divorce rates
- The New Right think that are divorce undermines the traditional nuclear family and creates an underclass of welfare dependant lone families
- Feminists think that this is good as women are breaking away from male oppression
- Postmodernists see divorce as giving individuals the right to choose their own life style and a greater cause to family diversity
- Functionalists see marriage as a institution that is under threat and due to higher expectations of marriage
- Interactionists is all dependant on who you look at for the beneficial, if a abusive father leaves than the children benefit but the mother may not because she now has to work and look after the kids
- Changes in divorce
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