Changing Family Patterns Flashcards

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alternatives to divorce: 3 key

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  • desertion
  • legal separation
  • ‘empty shell’ marriage
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explanations for the increase in divorce:

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  1. changes in law
  2. declining stigma and changing attitudes
  3. secularisation
  4. rising expectations of marriage
  5. women’s increased financial independence
  6. feminist explanations
  7. modernity and individualism
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4 negative consequences of divorce:

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  1. emotional strain
  2. lack of socialisation
  3. emotional trauma
  4. loss of childhood
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different types of partnerships:

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  • marriage
  • civil partnerships
  • civil ceremony
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cohabitation:

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  • relationship which involves an unmarried couple in a sexual relationship living together
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how has marriage changed?

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  • civil partnerships
  • secularisation
  • marriage at a later date
  • increased cohabiting
  • decline in marriage rates
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beanpole family:

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particular extended family

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continuation: beanpole family

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extended vertically: grandparents, parents and children

extended horizontally: not aunts, uncles and cousins

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childbearing:

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child births that are mostly by cohabiting couples

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2 reasons for the pattern:

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  • divorce
  • decline in stigma
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2 reasons for changes in childbearing:

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  • births outside marriage is due to a decline in stigma and a rise in cohabiting
  • women are having children later due to them focusing on their careers
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3 reasons why lone parent families are generally headed by the women:

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  • women have the nurturing, expressive role
  • divorce courts tend to usually give women the custody of the children to the mothers
  • men be less willing than women to give up work to care for the children
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changes in patterns of marriages:

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  • fewer marriages
  • increased marriages
  • later marriages
  • fewer church ceremonies
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explanations for the decrease in first marriages:

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N: norms ( changes in attitudes, secularisation and decline in stigma:
- cohabiting are now acceptable and pregnancy are not the automatic response for ‘shotgun marriage’

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continuation:

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w: women (feminism, independence, career aspects)
- better educational careers
- less economically dependence
- greater freedom to marriage

fear of divorce:
- some may see marriage as the likelihood of divorce due to the high divorce rate

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changing patterns of divorce: stats

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  • in (2018): 90,000 in the UK of opposite-sex couples and 428 same-sex couples
  • in (1971): 74,000 divorces in the year Divorce Reform Act came into place
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reasons for increase in divorce: 5

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  1. changing attitudes to relationships
  2. reduced stigma and secularism
  3. increased life expectancy
  4. changing gender roles
  5. growing individualism in society
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changing patterns of family life: marriage and cohabiting

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  1. changing role of women in society
  2. changing social attitudes
  3. rising divorces and insecurity of relationships
  4. changes to social institutions
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continuation:

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  1. Giddens’ ideas of confluent love and Baumen’s liquid love suggest that people will opt for serial monogamy over long-term relationships
  2. marriage delay + fear of divorce
    increase in instability in relationships and society
    divorce rate decrease while re-marriages increase
  3. process of secularisation has led people to see marriage as outdated and less stigma towards allternatives
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sociologist on divorce:

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Fletcher (1966) argues that the higher expectations people place on marriage today is a major cause of rising divorce rates.
These higher expectations make couples less willing to tolerate an unhappy marriage, which in turn leads to increasing divorce rates.

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symbolic interactionism:

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Davis Morgan (1996) argues we can’t generalise what divorce means because everyone’s interpretations are different.

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Feminists on divorce:

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Women are more likely to initiate divorces, which suggests that marriage works less well for women than for men.