Family Trends
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- Created on: 04-01-17 10:23
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- Family Trends
- Marriage
- marriage rates at lowest since 1920's
- remarriage is rising - serial monogamy
- people getting married older
- 1971-2005 average age of marriage increased by 7 years
- 60% in 1981 of church marriages and 35% in 2005
- REASONS: larger number of SPFS, higher number of extended families
- Divorce
- Causes- Changes in the law and changes in society
- Consequences - Family diversity: cohab relationship[s / same sex relationships / single person households
- Decline in stagma, is becoming more acceptable within society
- Easier access for women - making divorce cheaper
- widening the grounds for divorce - no longer have to be in a marriage beyond repair
- Number of divorces rose from 27,000 in 1961 to around 171,000 by 1999.
- SAME SEX MARRIAGE LEGALIZED 2014
- Decline of religious influence within society
- 3 ways of measuring: total petitions, total decrees absolute, divorce rate (number of divorces per thousand of the married population)
- CIVIL PARTNERSHIP ACT 2004
- Causes- Changes in the law and changes in society
- Cohabitation
- the number of opposite sex couples living together with or without children has increased from 2.2 million in 2003 to 2.9 million in 2013
- Single parent families
- In 2013 there were nearly 1.9 million lone parents with dependent children in the UK who were women
- increase in never married mothers: this accounts for 40% of lone parents average age is 35
- WHY ARE SPFS USUALLY HEADED BY WOMEN?
- in divorce women are more likely to get custody
- men are reluctant to give up well paying jobs
- women are more nurturing and expect parenthood
- men may feel that caring for a child threatens their masculinity
- it is more socially acceptable for a woman to care for a child than a man
- Marriage
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