marriage and divorce

Question 1

Reasons for changing patterns

Answer 1

Changing attitudes (can link to secularisation)
Changing roles of women
Secularisation
Growing divorce rates
HIgh expectations of marriage (link to Giddens)

Question 2

New right

Answer 2

Children must be brought up in married nuclear families so they’ll be more rounded members of society

Question 3

Functionalism

Answer 3

Married is the best foundation for primary socialisation of children and it can relief the strain of everyday life (warm bath theory)

Question 4

Marxism

Answer 4

Monogamous nuclear family is important because of inheritance of private property
Married nuclear family is to distract the working class that they’re being exploited by capitalism (FCC)
Safe haven concept

Question 5

Feminism

Answer 5

Women are exploited and expected to carry out domestic chores