partnerships Flashcards
M-marriage (12 cards)
M: What are marriage rates like?
At their lowest since 1920s. 2018 - 155,000 first marriages for both partners.
However, what is there more of?
Re-marriages. 2018 1/3 of all marriages were re-marriages.
What are people doing?
Marrying later: average age of first marriage rose by 7 years between 1978 and 2018.
Where are couples less likely to marry?
In church. 60% of weddings were conducted with religious ceremonies, but by 2018 this had fallen to 20%.
C: What does it involve?
Unmarried couple in a sexual relationship living together.
What is there general trend?
Fast-growing family type
How popular are they with homosexuals?
120,000 same-sex cohabiting couples
SS: What does Stonewall say?
Campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights estimates that 5-7% of adult population have same- sex relationship.
What is their evidence for?
Increased social acceptance on SS couples in recent years. Homosexual acts were decriminalised in 1967. Opinion polls treat homosexuality with more tolerance.
What does social policy now do?
treats all couples equally. E.g. since 2014 same-sex couples are able to marry.
1 person hh: What is the general trend?
big rise in people living alone. 2019 - 8.2 million people contained only 1 person a fifth more than 1999.
What’s a common trend for them?
most are over the age of 65. Pensioner household have doubled since 1961.
