Partnerships
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 25-04-14 09:40
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- Partnerships
- Marriage
- Fewer people are marrying: in 2005 there were only 170,800 marriages half than 1970
- Less people are getting married in churches as the Religious creeds are losing their support
- Also, people are scared of divroce so don't marry in the first place
- Yet there are more remarriages, with 4 in 10 of divorcee's getting re-married
- People are marrying later too due to the rise in focusing on careers
- The change in the position of society, more career-centred
- Fewer people are marrying: in 2005 there were only 170,800 marriages half than 1970
- Cohabitation
- There are about 2 million people cohabiting in Britain
- Reasons for the increase
- The decline in stigma attached to sex outside marriage
- Younger people are more likely to cohabit because its cheaper, with 88% of 18-25 living like this
- They are less religious too
- Women don't need to get married early in their lives anymore as they don't need financial support
- The relationship between conhabitation and marriage
- Cohabitation is a attempt at introducing a new modern, younger type of relationship
- It is the process of pre-marriage and people will get married if thy are having or plan to have children
- Same-sex relationships
- Stonewall
- 7% of the UK's population have same-sex relationships
- It is impossible to judge whether this represents an increase because in the past, the stigma and illegality of same sex relationships were kept secret
- Social policy is beginning to treat all couples more equally, whether homosexual or heterosexual, cohabitation or married. Recently, the first same sex marriage happened in March 2014
- Stonewall
- One-person households
- Been a big rise, due to the increase in divorce
- The role of women
- Less people are getting married too!
- The role of women
- Many can afford to adopt this type of partnerships as benefits from the government give extra support
- Been a big rise, due to the increase in divorce
- Marriage
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