Why is divorce increasing?
- Created by: Hollymurray99
- Created on: 31-01-18 22:36
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- Why is divorce increasing?
- Rising expectations - privatisation of nuclear family, more time in family so get bored
- Change in the law - 1969 Divorce Reform Act has made it easier + cheaper to get a divorce
- Changing roles of women
- 2/3 patterns of divorce come from women
- More financially independent
- Triple Shift
- Contraception - easier to cheat leading to higher divorce rates
- Secularisation - more socially acceptable/less stigma
- Changes in social attitudes
- More socially acceptable
- Less stigma to divorce
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