1.2 Cohabitation Flashcards
What is cohabitation?
An unmarried couple in a sexual relationship living together
What has happened to the number of marriages in the U.K.?
Fallen
What has happened to the number of couples cohabiting?
Increased
What is the fastest growing family type in the U.K.?
Cohabiting couples
(Explanations) increase in cohabitation reflects declining what?
Stigma toward sex outside marriage
(Explanations) British social attitudes survey - in 1989 what % agreed premarital sex was not wrong?
44%
(Explanations) British social attitudes survey - in 2000 what % agreed premarital sex was not wrong at all?
62%
(Explanations) why is cohabitation likely to rise in future?
The young are more accepting of it
(Explanations) increased career opportunity means women are less likely to do what?
Seek financial security of marriage
Opt for cohabitation
(Explanations) secularisation - 2001 census what type of people are more likely to cohabit?
Young people with no religion
(Explanations) how does cohabitation link with beck and beck-gernshiems ideas?
Individualisation - pursuit of self interests if this leads to conflict cohabitation is easier to leave
Choice - people can choose to cohabit rather than marry
(Explanations) how does cohabiting link to risk society?
People choose to cohabit as it is less of a risk - no divorce if things go wrong
(Explanations) how does cohabitation link to confluent love?
Individuals only stay as long as they are happy - not bound by marriage
Chester - for most people cohabitation is part of what?
The process of getting married
Coast - what % of cohabiting couples expect to marry?
75%
