JKR: Partnerships✔️ Flashcards
Cohabitation involves…
An unmarried couple in a sexual relationship living together. There are 2.9million straight people cohabiting in Britain.
About a fifth of these are serial cohabitants.
Why has cohabitation increased? (3)
- secularisation means young people without a religion will cohabit compared to this with a religion.
- women have more career opportunities that they don’t NEED to be married.
- sex before marriage is accepted and there’s less stigma. It’s also easier to get out of a cohabitation than getting out of a divorce.
What do the New Right think about cohabitation?
Against it as they feel it is more likely to result in a breakup.
What would Feminists make of cohabitation?
Against it as they feel women can d better without the man and patriarchal obligations.
What does Chester argue about cohabitation and marriage?
How does Coast back this up?
Argues that people that cohabit are planning to marry.
Chester said 75% of cohabitants expect to marry eachother = it’s just a stepping stool.
Many people see cohabitation as…
A trial marriage, they want to see if it goes well as it’s easier to get out of a cohabit rather than a marriage.
However, some may think that cohabitation is s permanent…
Alternatively to marriage.
Bejin finds young people do this to try and equalise the grounds e.g. not having the man’s second name to avoid patriarchy.
Shelton and John found that…
Women who cohabit do less housework than married women.
What does Stonewall say about same sex relationships?
That 5-7% of the adult population are in same sex relationships - we can’t tell if this is an increase from the past because of the stigma, no one admitted it.
E.g. Elton John got married to hide it.
Why are same sex relationships increasing?
Male homosexual acts made legal in 1967.
2004 cohabiting gay people can adopt.
2014 they can marry.
Weeks argues that…
An increased in social acceptance may explain a trend in same sex cohabitation.
Weston says that…
Many same sex cohabitation note that many gay people are stable partners rather than the crazy lifestyle they had in the 1900’s which could explain why they were looked down on.
One person households…
In 2013 almost 7.7 million people lived alone (3X more than in 1961)
40% of all of them are over 65
It is predicted that in 2033…
How does construction take advantage of this?
Over 33% of the adult population will be single and never married.
Construction can see this as there are more flats being built than the family homes in the 1900’s
Why are there more people living alone? (3)
- too few partners avaliable for them.
- people deliberately wanting to be single = less stigma. This however causes less births e.g. in Japan.
- men under 65 as courts are more likely to give family homes to mother after a divorce.
