LATs& Changes in child bearing, More births outside marriage
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- Created on: 16-12-15 16:31
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- (LATs) & Changes in child bearing:
- Levin (2004)-New family form-LATs, Alternative to marriage/cohabitation
- Individuals concerned are in- lTC, seen as couple- don't share a common home, live separate
- GROWTH OF LATs
- Levin: Growth of LATs= Social change,changing norms, open to new style of relationships
- Duncan& Phillips (2010)- LATs widely understood, accepted by public as approved alternative to marriage
- Haskey (2005)- 2 million couples in 2002 in LATs
- LAT has become more common- socially acceptable
- Growing individualization& choice in relationships
- Changes in labour market
- Modern technology- close contact can be maintained
- MEANING OF LATs- "PURE RELATIONSHIP"
- Levin- LATs - Enables couples to pursue the intimacy of being in a couple& preserve individual autonomy& identity
- BUT: Duncan& Philips- LATs subject to same expectation about commitment as marriage
- Levin- 3 main reasons why people choose LATs:
- 1. Responsibility& care
- 2. Pratical reasons: Working/studying - LATs avoid conflict
- 3.Risk
- Funk& Kobayashi (2014)- LATs= Means for partners to protect personal independence,personal space
- LATs enabled each partner to pursue their own interests- Reducing sacrifices, compromises and obligations
- Suggested that LAT-rooted in mutual satisfaction& exchanges in mutual support
- Funk& Kobayashi (2014)- LATs= Means for partners to protect personal independence,personal space
- Levin- LATs - Enables couples to pursue the intimacy of being in a couple& preserve individual autonomy& identity
- CHANGES IN CHILD- BEARING
- Families getting smaller- No. of births dropping, women having fewer children, women remaining childless
- WHY? Changing role of women-Priority to jobs
- WHY? Rising costs of children- £154,00
- WHY? Beck -Gernsheim- Growing individualization
- Growing proportion of births outside of marriage
- 47% of births- Outside marriage= 5 times more than the proportion in 1971
- Less social stigma attached to births outside marriage
- 9 out of 10 of births in 2011- Registered jointly by the parents
- Both parents in 3 out of 4 gave same address
- Parents were cohabitating
- Both parents in 3 out of 4 gave same address
- Families getting smaller- No. of births dropping, women having fewer children, women remaining childless
- Levin (2004)-New family form-LATs, Alternative to marriage/cohabitation
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