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Changing Family Patterns Flashcards

1
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Changes

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-more remarriages
-less marriage
-less church

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Rates of marriage

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-lowest since 1920s
-2012, 1/3 remarriages based, serial monogyny
-aged of marriage raised in 2012, 32 for men and 30 for women
-60% of church weddings now 30%

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Changed in marriage

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-secularisation, less need for marriage
-women no longer economically reliant on men
-fear of divorce

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Mitchell and Goody

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-less pressure for marriage
-freedom
-relation quality more important than legal status

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Cohabitation

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-living together sexually but no marriage
-stigma removed 44%, now 2012 65%
-younger generation more excepting

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Robert Chester

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cohabitation is part of the process to marriage

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Ernestina Coast

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-65% cohabitation couples state they are going to get married
-trail marriage aspect

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Child Bearing

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-47% of children now born outside of marriage
-children now being had later, 1971 to 2012 4 year increase

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Reasons for change

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-birth outside marriage is due to reduced stigma
-only 28% think marriage should come before children
-smaller family sizes

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Extended family

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-family beyond nuclear
-popular in ethnic minority groups

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Charles

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-classic 3 generation family in Swansea
-all live under same roof is no longer

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Bell

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-w/c and m/c both had emotional bond with child

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13
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Willmott

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-extended family do still exists just as a disperse
-geographically separate
-contact online

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14
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Chamberlain

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-Caribbean family in UK
-geographically separated
-still provide support
-multiple nuclear family

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Patterns in women

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-when divorcing usually take the children
-poverty
-lack of clear social norms

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Andre Bejin

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-cohabitation amongst younger generation shows attempts for equal relationship

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Shelton and John

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-women from cohabitation do less housework

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awaiting divorce

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-cohabitation can be a temporary phase as people wait for previous relationship to divorce

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Step families

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-10% of UK family
-85% of fails have at least one child from previous relationship

20
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Acceptance of pre marital sex

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1989 to 2012 21%

21
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Allen and Crow

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-face issues with divided loyalties
-contact with non resident parent

22
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Ferri and Smith

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-step families higher risk of poverty
-positive outlook on childcare

23
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McCarthy

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-due to diversity step families should be plural but some have tension
-not too different from intact families

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Secularisation

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-decline in the influence of religion on society
-47% non religious in 2001
-churches are softer on there divorce
But many people get divorce due to reasons not related to religion

25
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Beck and Giddens

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-traditional norms to stay with one partner for life has lost effect
-individual thesis
But personal freedom was overrated due to finance and sake of the children
-Radical fem say it assumes equality in marriage

26
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Hochschild

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-at work women feel valued but not at home
-leads to frustration and less time on emotions

27
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Feminists

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-women’s dual burden and triple shift leads to divorce
-marriage remains patriarchal

28
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Cooke and Gash

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-no evidence that working women are more likely to get a divorce

29
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Ronald Fletcher

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-high expectations leads to major divorce
-ideology of romantic love/ soul mates
-rose tinted view

30
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Risk of divorce

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-marrying young
-child before marriage
-cohabitation before marriage
-married before

31
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Correlation of Marriage and Divorce

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-marriage peaked in 1942 and dropped due to war
-divorce doubles from 1961 to 1969
-divorce had steady decline in 2012

32
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Alternatives for divorce

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-desertion, leave but remained married
-legal separation of finance
-empty shell, live under same roof and marriage through name only

33
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Women Financial independence

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-women seek divorce due to improvement on economic position
-women increase in pay, 1971 53%, 2013 67%
-anti discrimination laws
But, doesn’t explain about men

34
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Divorce law

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-legal aid 1949 made it cheaper to divorce
-no fault divorce in April 2022

35
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Mitchell and Goody

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-decline in stigma
-socially expectable for a divorce
-normalised

36
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Rise in divorce

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-changing attitude
-secularisation
-feminism
But people still value marriage and try to work through problems

37
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Julia Brannen

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-Bean pole family
-extended vertically through 3 generations
-long and thin
-brother and sister decline in contact
-result of 2 demographic changes: life expectancy and survival in grandparents

38
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Cheal

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-help with house work, systematic set of rules for deciding who has greater obligation to assist
-spouse, daughter, daughter in law, son then relative

39
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Finch and Mason

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Obligations to relatives
-90% received or given financial help
-1/2 care fro sick relative
-expected from women than men

40
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Mason

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-depends on history of relationship if women feel an obligation
-responsibility that give them a legitimate excuse to not help

41
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Black families

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-Caribbean and Africa have higher rte of single parents
-1/2 of lone parents are black
-compared to 1/9 Asian

42
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Black female lone parents

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-family disorganisation traces back to slavery
-high unemployment in black males, children go with mum
-male unemployment leads to desertion and mental breakdown

43
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Mirza

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-high rate of lone family in black
-due to women having high value on independence

44
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Reynold

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-statistics are misleading
-black lone parents are in stable supportive but non cohabitation relationships

45
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Asian Families

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-large asian household reflects value on extended family
-need assistance and support when moving to UK
-overtime Asians become more nuclear

46
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Black women authority

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-women head of family due to authority during slavery

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