Divorce

Question 1

The divorce rate/1000 people/year in 2021…

Answer 1

9.3 for men, 9.4 for women.
There has been a 0.8 increase since 2020

Question 2

What are the 3 patterns of divorce worth remembering?

Answer 2

1930 - 1990 increase in divorce
2002 - 2010 decrease in divorce
2020 - 2021 increase in divorce

Question 3

The idea of a guilty party in a divorce settlement was abolished in the ____ divorce reform act.

Answer 3

1969

Question 4

In the early 2000s, divorce rates settled from the gradual increase in the 20th century but what else didn’t increase?

Answer 4

Marriage rates.
Because of cohabitation

Question 5

2014, an important bill for marriage was passed. What?

Answer 5

‘Civil partnership act’
The right for same sex couples to marry.

Question 6

What is a legislative explanation for the rise in divorce?

Answer 6

It’s easier than ever.
- Wives can initiate them
- Wives do not have to prove their husband mistreats them.
- Wives are more financially dependent to afford divorce lawyers
- Legalising a divorce is cheaper.

Question 7

What’s a social explanation for rises in divorce?

Answer 7

• secularisation
• destigmatisation
• the rise of feminist perspectives amongst women.
• Postmodernity and individualism in today’s society replacing a status from marriage
• Rising expectations from marriage

Question 8

What is the New Right’s perspective on the divorces?

Answer 8

• That is indicative of moral decay, the family has vital functions for raising children and it’s deterioration causes social problems.
• Policies to do with the family should be encouraging people to find work to support themselves and their families, and policy should incentives people to get married as well.

Question 9

By 2012…. (in relation to divorce)

Answer 9

1/3 marriages are actually remarriages

Question 10

1/5 cohabiting couples could be classified as…

Answer 10

serial cohabiting couples.
Moving from place to place, partner to partner.

Question 11

What’s the Family law act?

Answer 11

a bill passed in 1996 which encouraged couples to seek counselling for their marriages before considering divorce.

Divorce was made more accessible and less stigmatised but encouraged by the Conservative party as a last resort.

Question 12

Family law act was in

Answer 12

1996

Question 13

Divorce reform act was in the year

Answer 13

1969

Question 14

In 2023… (in relation to cohabiting couples)

Answer 14

23% of couples were cohabiting couples.

Question 15

In 1923

Answer 15

The ability to instigate a divorce was equalised (whereas before women had to prove their husbands were abusive).

There still had to be a guilty party.