1.2 Marriage

Question 1

What has happened to the number of people marrying?

Answer 1

Decreased

Question 2

Marriage rates are at their lowest since when?

Answer 2

The 1920s

Question 3

There are more of what type of marriages?

Answer 3

Remarriages

Question 4

In 2005, how many out of 10 marriages were re marriages?

Answer 4

4

Question 5

What is a remarriage?

Answer 5

One or both partners have been married before

Question 6

People are marrying when?

Answer 6

Later

Question 7

It 2005 what were the average ages of marrying for men and women?

Answer 7

Men - 32

Women - 30

Question 8

Couples are less likely to marry where?

Answer 8

In a church

Question 9

In 1981 what percent of weddings were conducted in a church?

Answer 9

60%

Question 10

In 2005 what percentage of weddings were conducted in a church?

Answer 10

35%

Question 11

(Explanations) changing attitudes toward marriage mean there is less pressure to do what?

Answer 11

Get married

Or marry young

Question 12

(Explanations) changing attitudes give individuals freedom to choose what?

Answer 12

Relationship they want

Question 13

(Explanations) changing attitudes - people consider the quality of the relationship more than what?

Answer 13

Legal status

Question 14

(Explanations) changing attitudes - which norm has weakened?

Answer 14

The one saying everyone should marry

Question 15

(Explanations) secularisation means there is decline in what?

Answer 15

Churches influence on why people should marry

Question 16

(Explanations) there is declining stigma toward what?

Answer 16

Alternatives to marriage

Question 17

(Explanations) what alternatives to marriage are widely acceptable now?

Answer 17

Cohabitation
Singlehood
Children outside marriage

Question 18

(Explanations) women are less financially dependent on men why?

Answer 18

Paid work
Equal pay
Benefits
Education success

Question 19

(Explanations) women have greater freedom to do what?

Answer 19

Not marry

Question 20

(Explanations) feminists - marriage is a form of patriarchal oppression which may convince some women to what?

Answer 20

Not get married

Question 21

(Explanations) the number of re marriages has increased due to what?

Answer 21

Rise in divorce

Question 22

(Explanations) why is the age at which people marry increasing?

Answer 22

Young people postponing marriage for education and careers

Choosing to cohabit