changing family patterns

Question 1

increase in divorce

(functionalism)

Answer 1

Ronald fletcher
* argues rising divroce rates are due to people entering martriage with unrealistically high expectations

• argues that divorce rates are high but so are rates of remarriage, people are giving up on partners not on the insitution of marriage

Question 1

increase of same-sex cohabitation

Answer 1

Jeffery Weeks
* increased social acceptance leads gays to form chosen families based on the idea of ‘friendship as kinship’.
* they offer the same stability as traditional heterosexual families

Question 2

decline in marriage rates

Answer 2

Anothony giddens and the pure relationship

Jessie Bernard - women leave or dont begin marriages due to widespread accpetance of feminsit ideals

Question 3

increas in alt families

Answer 3

Charles Murray
* increase in alt families due to ‘dependency culture’ and ‘perverse incentives’