Increase in Divorce
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- Created on: 15-05-14 14:10
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- Increase in Divorce
- 1) Legal changes
- DRA 69 - 'irretrievable breakdown' 1 Unreasonable behaviour = quickie divorce
- MFPA 84 - reduced time until petitioning for divorce from 3yrs to 1
- Legal Aid acts - made more affordable for those on lower incomes
- CSPASSA 2000 - absent parents pays fixed contribution for child support. Economic security.
- Proportions of divorces to marriages quadruple that in '68. 45% end in divorce.
- 2) Changing social attitudes
- GIDDENS - Confluent love. If not satisfied won't stay in empty-shell marriage.
- COCKETT + TRIPP - divorce itself become normalised
- GIBSON - Secularisation = less stigma
- HART - Divorce is a result of women's frustrations if have dual burden
- GITTINS - women less disillusioned + likely to remarry. 70% of divorce petitions made by wives.
- 1) Legal changes
- HART - Divorce is a result of women's frustrations if have dual burden
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