Changing Family Relationships Flashcards
(8 cards)
Marriage patterns
Declineing
Fewer people get married
People get married later
Couples more likely to have civil ceremonies
Civil partnership act 2005
Reasons for changing patterns of marriage
Social norm has weakened
Fewer stigmas
Secularisation
rise of feminism and equal opportunities
Fear of divorce
Divorce patterns
Increaseing
Roughly over 1/3 of all marriages will end in divorce
Reasons for changing pattern to divorce
Changes in law has become cheaper easier and quicker to get divorces
Decline in stigma and changing attitudes
Secularisation
Feminist explanations and changes in position of women
Rising expectations of marriage
Cohabitation patterns
Living together as a couple without being married fastest growing family type in UK one quarter of all or married adults under the age of 60 cohabitate
Reasons for changing patterns of cohabitation
Secularisation
Las stigma attach the children outside of marriage
Changes in social norms more accepted
Women may need financial security of marriage less as they work
Rise of reliable contraception
New right perspective on marriage and divorce
Leave heterosexual marriage most effective way of socialising children have negative view of increased cohabiting and divorce and decreasing marriage see it as a threat to society as it results in lone parent families who are headed by women and dependent on welfare state leads to inadequate socialization of boys turn to antisocial behavior and crime
Feminism perspective on marriage and divorce
Majority see marriage as beneficial to men radical feminists focus on domestic Labour and domestic violence most feminist reject any barriers on divorce as restrictors may force some women to enjoy physical and or sexual abuse and exploitation allows women to leave marriages that they would have endured in the past feminist open to cohabitation allows women to negotiate relationship more free of patriarch or traditions of marriage test waters on relationship
