Sociological perspectives on the change in divorce rates
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- Created on: 31-01-18 22:53
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- Sociological perspectives on change in divorce rates
- 1969 Divorce Reform Act made it easier to get a divorce
- Feminists
- Women breaking free from oppression in patriarchal nuclear family
- Functionalists
- Due to high expectations and not social institutions under threat
- New Right
- Undesirable as undermines traditional nuclear family and creates a culture of dependency of welfare state
- Creates lone parent families with males without a rolemodel
- Postmodernists
- Gives freedom and greater diversity
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