- Reasons for decline in marriage& Growing cohabitation:
-Changing role of women- Women cohabiting carry out less work
- Reduced functions of family- Marriage become less of a partical necessity
-Changing social attitudes- Less social stigma, YP more likely to cohabit (easy going attitudes)
- Reducing risks- Beck= Living in "risky society" individuals less controlled by traditional structures& institution, Less loyalty demanded by soical norms of marriage
- The rising divorce rate - Deter couples from marriages not lasting
-Growing secularization
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