change in family patterns

Question 1

What is one reason for the fall in divorces

Answer 1

fewer people are choosing to marry, they want to cohabit instead.

Question 2

Name three reasons for explanations for the increase of divorce

Answer 2

Changes in the law, declining stigma and changing attitudes, secularisation, rising expectations of marriage, women’s increased financial marriage

Question 3

what changes in the law made it easier to get a divorce

Answer 3

equalising the grounds, widening the grounds for divorce and making divorce cheaper

Question 4

Name 3 changes in trend for marriage

Answer 4

fewer people are marrying, there are more re-marriages, people are marrying later, couples are less likely to marry in church

Question 5

what are the reasons for changing patterns of marriage

Answer 5

changing attitudes to marriage, secularisation, declining stigma attached to alternative to marriage, changes in the position of women and fear of divorce.

Question 6

list 3 reasons for rise in cohabitation

Answer 6

• result in decline in stigma of sex outside marriage
• the young are more likely to accept cohabitation
• secularisation