Main changes in relationships
- Created by: Lily
- Created on: 01-05-13 23:51
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- Main changes in relationships
- Marriage & Divorce
- Peak in 1970, declined since
- higher proportion of re-marriages (40% in 2005)
- Average age is rising - 32 for men, 29 for women (2005)
- 61% of marriages are now civil ceremonies
- Divorce rates have increased massively in the last 50 years
- Cohabitation
- By 1997, 24% of couples were cohabiting
- Many marry only after the birth of a child
- Many people choose not to marry at all
- Homosexual couples
- Increase in births outside marriage? 75% in 1992
- Single-parent families
- 1993 22% lone parents
- 20% lone mothers, 2% lone fathers
- 1% by death, 12% divorce, 8% never married -1995
- British rate of teenage pregnancies - one of the highest in Europe
- Other
- Rise in reconstituted families
- 1998 - 28% single-person households, usually elderly women or divorcees
- 34% - couples
- Marriage & Divorce
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