//Changing Family Patterns

Question 1

Which gender is responsible for most divorce petitions?

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Question 2

What is the most common reason for a woman to be granted a divorce?

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Question 3

Give three possible solutions to the breakdown of a marriage, apart from divorce.

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Question 4

What is stigma?

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Question 5

Why has the stigma surrounding divorce decreased?

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Question 6

Define secularisation.

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Question 7

Why might secularisation lead to more divorce?

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Question 8

Why do couples have higher expectations of marriage today?

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Question 9

Why are functionalists optimistic about marriage despite higher divorce rates?

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Question 10

What aspect of rising divorce rates do functionalists fail to explain?

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Question 11

Give four reasons for women’s increased financial independence today.

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Question 12

What role does the dual burden play in causing an increased divorced rate?

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Question 13

According to radical feminists, why are women more likely to file for divorce?

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Question 14

How does individualism contribute to a higher divorce rate?

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Question 15

What is the New Right view on high divorce rates?

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Question 16

What is the feminists view on high divorce rates?

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Question 17

What is the postmodernists and indivudalisation thesis’ view on high divorce rates?

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Question 18

What is the functionalists view on high divorce rates?

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Question 19

What is the interactionists view on high divorce rates?

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Question 20

What is the personal life perspectives’ view on high divorce rates?

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Question 21

Identify four changes in the pattern of marriage in recent years.

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Question 22

Summarise why changing attitudes to marriage leads to changes in first marriages.

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Question 23

Summarise why secularisation leads to changes in first marriages.

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Question 24

Summarise why declining stigma attached to alternatives to marriage leads to changes in first marriages.

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Question 25

Summarise why changes in the position in women leads to changes in first marriages.

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Question 26

Summarise why fear of divorce leads to changes in first marriages.

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Question 27

Why have remarriages increased?

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Question 28

Why are couples marrying at a later age?

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Question 29

Give two reasons why couples today may be less likely to get married in church.

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Question 30

Define cohabitation.

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Question 31

Note four patterns of cohabitation.

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Question 32

Give four reasons for the increase in cohabitation.

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Question 33

Identify two different ways in which cohabitation may be seen by couples.

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Question 34

Identify three rights that are the same for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples.

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Question 35

Explain what Weeks means by ‘chosen families’

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Question 36

According to Weston, how have same-sex relationships changed since the 1970s?

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Question 37

What has been the impact of legal acceptance on same-sex couples?

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Question 38

Why might some gay people see legal recognition of same-sex relationships as limiting?

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Question 39

Note the three patterns of one-person households today.

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Question 40

Give two reasons for the increased number of one-person households

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Question 41

Give two reasons why couples may choose to live apart.

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Question 42

Note the three patterns of childbearing today.

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Question 43

Give two reasons for the changes in patterns of childbearing.

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Question 44

Give two reasons for the rise in the number of lone-parent families.

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Question 45

Give three reasons why lone-parent families tend to be headed by women.

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Question 46

Give two reasons why some women may be ‘single by choice’.

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Question 47

What reason does Murray give for the increase in lone-parent families?

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Question 48

What is meant by a ‘perverse incentive’?

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Question 49

What is meant by the term ‘dependency culture’?

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Question 50

According to Murray, what is the solution to the dependency culture?

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Question 51

Give four reasons why lone-parent families are likely to be in poverty.

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Question 52

Why are the children in stepfamilies more likely to be from the woman’s previous relationship rather than the man’s?.

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Question 53

Why might stepfamilies face poverty?

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Question 54

What tensions might exist in stepfamilies?

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Question 55

Which ethnic group has the highest, and which has the lowest number of married couples (include statistics)?

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Question 56

Which ethnic group has the highest, and which has the lowest number of cohabiting couples (include statistics)?

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Question 57

Which ethnic group has the highest, and which has the lowest number of lone parents (include statistics)?

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Question 58

Suggest two reasons why black families are more likely to be lone-parent families than families in other ethnic groups.

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Question 59

Why does Mirza argue that the statistics on lone-parent black families may not reflect the true situation?

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Question 60

. Identify two reasons why Asian households tend to be larger than those other ethnic groups.

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Question 61

Summarise the evidence in Charles' study for the continued existence of the extended family today.

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Question 62

Summarise the evidence in Wilmott's study for the continued existence of the extended family today.

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Question 63

Summarise the evidence in Chamberlain's study for the continued existence of the extended family today.

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Question 64

Summarise the evidence in Bell's study for the continued existence of the extended family today.

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Question 65

Identify two features of the ‘beanpole’ family.

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Question 66

Which two demographic changes have encouraged the ‘beanpole’ family?

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Question 67

List the order of obligation to help with household tasks that Cheal identifies.

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Question 68

Which gender is more likely to be chosen as a caregiver?

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