Reason for family change
- Created by: brooke34
- Created on: 16-05-19 12:50
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- Reason for Change
- Change in norms and values
- in regard to morality and sexuality in past 50 years
- Sex outside of marriage would once have been seen as a huge issue so men married quickly if pregnant
- The ONS 2013 = % of children to unmarried was 47.5%
- Sex outside of marriage would once have been seen as a huge issue so men married quickly if pregnant
- Fear of marriage lead to cohabitation for a "trial"
- Secularization = decline in region makes less importance for marriage and nuclear family
- less stigma around divorce
- in regard to morality and sexuality in past 50 years
- Legal Changes
- Civil partnerships and same-sex marriage legalized in 2014
- Divorce has been made easier so widens and cheapens divorce
- policies link to family planning and sex education
- Economic change
- change of women's positions as go to work more now so less economically dependent on men
- Economic idependence give choice not to get married and just cohabit
- More disposable income means can re-marry - reconstituted families
- Equal Pay Act 1975
- New Technologies
- become fragmented as result of technology (Gergen)
- Families no longer sit together in one place
- IVF make it possible to have children when they thought they couldn't
- Methods of contraception now give control over children and sex a pleasure
- become fragmented as result of technology (Gergen)
- Change in norms and values
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