Reasons For Family Diversity

Question 1

Serial monogamy definition

Answer 1

Multiple long term relationships

Increasing

Question 2

TRENDS IN MARRIAGE
1950 - today amount of marriages

Answer 2

50s - 500,000
Today 250,000

Question 3

TRENDS IN MARRIAGE
Average age of marriages 70s to today

Answer 3

70s 27
Today 33 female 35 male

Question 4

TRENDS IN MARRIAGE
Remarriages facts

Answer 4

Today 1/3 remarried from prev marriages
Rare before divorce reform act 1971

Question 5

When did the divorce reform act come out

Answer 5

1971

Question 6

TRENDS IN MARRIAGE
Marriage locations prior 70s and today

Answer 6

70s church
Today rare - secularisation

Question 7

TRENDS IN COHABITATION
(Also see cohabitation slide)
3

Answer 7

1. 80% married previously cohabited
2. Typically cohabit 4 years before marriage
3. 1990s to today cohabitation has doubled

Question 8

SINGLE-HOOD
Negative connotations with being single

Answer 8

‘Left on the shelf’
In the past

Question 9

SINGLE-HOOD
Creative single hood meaning

Answer 9

Remain single out of choice

Question 10

SINGLE-HOOD
Creative singlehood
What sociologist suggests it’s to work on themselves

Answer 10

Hall et al

Question 11

SINGLE-HOOD
KIPPERS meaning and stats

Answer 11

Kids living in parents pockets
1/3 men 1/6 women
Rise in cost of living

Question 12

SINGLE-HOOD
Klinebergs 3 reasons of single hood

Answer 12

1. Individualisation
2. Communication revolution
3. Widows

Question 13

SINGLEHOOD
3 reasons of single hood

1. Individualisation
2. Communication revolution
3. Widows

Sociologist?

Answer 13

Klineberg

Question 14

Explaination for changing patterns with decline of marriage
4

Answer 14

1. Changing social attitudes
2. Decline in family values
3. Individualisation
4. Change in women’s roles

Question 15

1. Changing social attitudes

Answer 15

•expected to marry pre kids
•shotgun marriages - marry if pregnant pre marriage / kids adopted

Question 16

2. Decline in family values
   3

Answer 16

•nuclear family not the norm - cohabitation now
•secularisation = modern
•new right - 90s labour gov criticised for being biased against nuclear (tax cuts). Destroying nuclear family

Question 17

3. Individualisation
   Beck and beck gernsheim

Answer 17

•Giddens - confluent love
- cohabitation - safety to leave without divorce

•short term affairs and relationships - passion without commitment

Question 18

4. Change in women’s roles and attitudes

Answer 18

•Feminists - marriage keeps women trapped in patriarchy ‘legalised prostitution’
-more concerned with education
•However also acknowledge women’s desire for love