Changes in family
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- Created on: 26-12-16 15:48
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- Changes in the Family.
- Divorce
- Has risen from 27,000, each year, in 1971 to 167,000 by 2005.
- Reasons
- Changes in law
- Role of women.
- Rising expectation of marriage
- Social attitudes
- Secularisation
- Increase in privatised nuclear families
- Divorce can lead to child's economic and psychological stress
- rose rapidly between the 1960s and 1993, remained high
- in the past people had empty shell marriages - divorce cost too much
- 1949 - Legal Aid Act
- Step Families
- Also know as the reconstituted family
- Fasted growing household type but only makes up 1% of all households
- 45% of first marriages end in divorce but only 31% of second marriages end in divorce
- Effects parenting tactics; co-parenting
- Cohabitation
- Increased in recent years; shows that marriage isn't the only option for long-term relationships.
- Can be seen as choosing partner more wisely or a flexible alternative to marriage
- Reasons
- Changing norms and values
- Secularisation
- Increase in divorce
- Single Parent Families
- Represent 25% of families with dependent children.
- Reasons
- Changes in women
- Increase in divorce
- Decline in stigma
- secularization
- welfare state
- changes in sexuality
- Can lead to reconstituted families
- triples since the 70s
- Charles Murray - New Right: devalues work, encourages criminality and 'dependency culture' bc of welfare
- Marriage
- Marriage has less influence
- Reasons
- Changes in women
- Decline in stigma
- Secularisation
- Changing norms and values
- Fear of divorce
- Nuclear Family
- is believed to be on a decline
- Robert Chester -statistics are misleading
- only 27% of households but they hold more people
- only shows a snapshot of peoples lives - in a nuclear family at some point
- there is a neo-nuclear family
- One person households
- older people are getting divorces
- life expectancy
- more financial support
- older people are getting divorces
- Divorce
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