changes in family

Question 1

remarriages stat

Answer 1

More remarriages - 4/10 divorces lead to remarriage

Question 2

Chandler

Answer 2

40% marriages will end in divorce (7/10 applicants are women)

Question 3

reason for cohabitating: chester

Answer 3

cohabitation is part of process of marriage

Question 4

reason for cohabitating: coast

Answer 4

75% of cohabiting couples want to be married

Question 5

bejin

Answer 5

cohabitation represents a conscious choice to create a more negotiable and equal relationship

Question 6

2012 black and asian families

Answer 6

over 1/2 of black families are lone parent, 1/9 Asian, under 1/4 all

Question 7

criticism: mirza

Answer 7

not result of disorganization but the high value black women place on independence

Question 8

stacey

Answer 8

Women have more freedom than ever before to shape their family arrangement to meet their needs and free themselves from patriarchal oppression. Through case studies conducted in Silicon Valley, California -women rather than men are the driving force behind changes in the family.

new type of family “the divorce-extended family” – members are connected by divorce rather than marriage, for example ex in laws, or former husband’s new partners.