Changing Family Patterns

Question 1

What causes so many people to give up on marriage?

Answer 1

Coparenting not looked down on anymore
Cheating
Domestic violence

Question 2

Why is the marriage rates decreasing and divorce rates increasing?

Answer 2

Changes in the law (divorce law reform act 1969)
Rising expectations
Declining stigma and changing attitudes
Secularisation
Changes in the position of women (not as financially dependant on men)

Question 3

Who is most likely to get divorced?

Answer 3

Those who married young
Those who have children before marriage
People who have been married before

Question 4

Trends with children

Answer 4

% of children born outside of marriage increasing
Average age if women having a first child raising
Average number of children per women decreasing

Question 5

What does the new right believe about lone-parent families?

Answer 5

Rise of lone parent families is bad for society
People taking advantage of welfare system- people not fussed about getting pregnant whilst single or getting a divorce

Question 6

Patterns on lone families

Answer 6

10.6% of uk households
1 in 4
Black families most likely

Question 7

What are some patterns with black families?

Answer 7

Likely to be lone parent
During slavery children likely to be sold with mother not father
High unemployment with black men
Independence of women
Incorrect statistics?

Question 8

Trends in marriage and cohabitation?

Answer 8

88% cohabitating before marriage
Average age of marriage rising

Question 9

Trends in childbearing

Answer 9

51.6% born to married couple
Fertility rates decreased in all age groups except women over 40
Group with highest fertility rate is 30-34 in 2018

Question 10

What are the reasons for the changes in the position of children?

Answer 10

Laws restricting child labour and excluding them from paid work
Introduction of compulsory schooling
Child protection and welfare legislation
Growth of children’s rights
Declining family size and lower infant mortality
Childrens development became the subject of medical knowledge
Laws and policies that apply specifically to children

Question 11

What did postman say about the position of children?

Answer 11

Childhood is disappearing
Shift from print culture to to culture
Print culture- children lacked literacy skills so they couldn’t explore adult material and matters
Tv culture- adult authority weakened, boundaries between adults and children blurred