Divorce
- Created by: Jessica Speight
- Created on: 08-05-14 13:18
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- Divorce
- The legal separation of marriage by a court or other competent body to end a marriage.
- Divorce reform act 1969
- No longer had to prove that there was a "guilty party" just that the marriage was broken past repair.
- Made divorce more socially acceptable.
- The matrimonial and family act 1984
- But critics say this inst enough time to give the marriage a proper chance.
- Allowed couples to get divorced after one year of marriage
- The family law act 1999
- Introduced compulsory marriage counselling
- Increased the time to 18 months
- Factors that increase the divorce rate
- Easier and cheaper to divorce
- BECK & BECK: Rising divorce rather are the product of a rapidly changing world which the traditional rules, rituals and traditions of love and romance no longer apply.
- People are not committed as they used to be
- Social expectations have changed; Religious views etc.
- High divorce rates indicate that marriage is increasingly valued as people arent willing to put up with empty shell marriages.
- People now want emotional and sexual compatibility.
- Women expectations of marriages have now changed.
- No longer associated with stigma and shame
- Improved educational and career opportunities
- Women no longer want to be unhappily married and want to be more financially independent.
- The welfare helped divorced women with children
- Easier and cheaper to divorce
- New right: those who witness a divorce of their parents tend to be involved in anti-social behaviour, unemployment and divorced themselves.
- Factors that increase the divorce rate
- Easier and cheaper to divorce
- BECK & BECK: Rising divorce rather are the product of a rapidly changing world which the traditional rules, rituals and traditions of love and romance no longer apply.
- People are not committed as they used to be
- Social expectations have changed; Religious views etc.
- High divorce rates indicate that marriage is increasingly valued as people arent willing to put up with empty shell marriages.
- People now want emotional and sexual compatibility.
- Women expectations of marriages have now changed.
- No longer associated with stigma and shame
- Improved educational and career opportunities
- Women no longer want to be unhappily married and want to be more financially independent.
- The welfare helped divorced women with children
- Easier and cheaper to divorce
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