Marriage, divorce and family diversity
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- Marriage, divorce and family diversity
- Marriage
- Morgan
- Marriage is centrally important to society, morality and social order because it involves unique attachments, obligations and mutual expectations that legally and ethically regulate and limit people's behaviour
- Same-sex marriage rejects Christian values and consciousness, and a general moral decline.
- Rector
- The welfare state damaged marriage because the benefits system has encouraged single parenthood, at the expense of married parenthood, by reducing the financial need for marriage.
- Robert Epstein
- Arranged marriages tend to grow more stable as time goes on , while love marriage are more likely to deteriorate.
- Beaujouan and Ni Bhrolchain
- Cohabitation has become a normal part of the life-course in the UK.
- Cohabitation may be responsible for the decline in marriages ending in divorce by their fifth anniversary because it 'screens out' weaker relationships which without cohabitation might have immediately progressed to marriage.
- Morgan
- Marital breakdown
- Thornes and Collard
- Women expect far more in a marriage than men and they value friendship in marriage and emotional gratification more than men do.
- Hart
- Increasing divorce rates may also be a reaction to the frustration that many working wives feel if they continue to seen by their husband as responsible for the bulk of housework and childcare
- Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
- Increasing divorce rates are the product of a rapidly changing and postmodern world, in which the traditional rules and rituals of love, romance and relationships no longer apply.
- Kiernan and Holmes
- Lone parenthood is most common among Black and mixed-race mothers, particularly in deprived urban areas in the major cities of the UK
- Flouri and Buchanan
- Families where after a divorce the father was still involved, the children were more successful in gaining educational qualifications and continued to seek out educational opportunities in adult life.
- Mooney et al
- Parental conflict is more important than parental separation as an influence in producing negative outcomes in children
- Ford and Millar
- Many single mothers attempt to protect heir children from poverty by sending less on themselves.
- Thornes and Collard
- Reconstituted families
- Martin
- Stepmothers with good intentions may become the target for the children's resentment about the amount of change in their lives and their natural mother's unhappiness
- Martin
- The life-course
- Smart
- 'Family' is too often associated with value judgements about the 'ideal' or 'normal' family types
- Robert and Rhona Rapoport
- Structural diversity
- Variations in family size or organisation
- Domestic diversity
- Variations in the way men and women divide and manage childcare and housework
- Cultural diversity
- Impact of global migration on family structures and dynamics
- Class diversity
- social-class variations in the quality of family relationships and lifestyles.
- Cohort diversity
- The different experiences of different generations
- Structural diversity
- Smart
- Marriage
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