reasons for changes in fam xx

Question 1

what are the reasons for changes in family? (9)

Answer 1

legal changes
longer life expectancy
extended kin
benefits for lone parents
decline in religion
mixed race family
changes in social values and attitudes
changing gender roles
employment opportunities

Question 2

how is “changing gender roles” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 2

• increasing number of women work and no longer need to depend on men for money
• 47% of the workplace is women
• this also explains the single person households

Question 3

how is “employments opportunities” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 3

• more employment opportunities for women today
• women are now cohabiting or marrying now have more control over their fertility by using contraception
• women can plan on how to have kids while having a career

Question 4

how is “extended kin” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 4

• kin often move closer to family as a result of childcare or babysitting, seen as more common in working class

Question 5

how is “longer life expectancy” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 5

• increase in life means when couples maddy they’re more likely to spend considerable amount of time with that one person

Question 6

how is “benefits for lone parents” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 6

• uk government provides benefits for lone parents which can make decision to divorce and raise children
• also women can now support themselves

Question 7

how is “decline in religion” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 7

• william goole argued secularisation has resulted in marriage becoming a less sacred union
• fewer couples marry in a religious ceremony today, divorce us less likely seen as wrong

Question 8

how is “mixed race family” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 8

• important + positive feature from immigration and multi- cultural society is growth of mixed race relationships
• britain has highest levels of inter racial relationships in western world

Question 9

how is “changes in social values and attitudes” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 9

• 1900’s brought bug changes to people properties and expectations of a relationship
• marriage isn’t seen as, as important
• more people live alone as there’s less judgement, more acceptable to cohabit

Question 10

how is “legal changes” a reason for changes in family?

Answer 10

legal changes affecting structures: divorce reform act 1969, equal pay act 1970, marriage act 2013

• divorce reforms made it easy for people to leave unhappy marriages. divorce rate increased significantly, more than double between 1969-1972. 42% of marriage end in divorce
• equally pay act meant women and men doing the same job got paid the same. women have more independence

-marriage act allowed same sex couples to get married in england and wales. 2014-2015 15,098 sam’s six couples got married