Changing Family Patterns

Question 1

What did the 1969 Divorce law reform act do ?

Answer 1

Idea of matrimonial offence or ‘guilty party’ abolished

Question 2

What came into place in 2014

Answer 2

Same sex marriage

Question 3

What did the 1996 family law act encourage ?

Answer 3

Encourages couples to seek mediation but allows divorce by agreement

Question 4

Mitchell and Goody

Answer 4

Rapid decline in the stigma attached to divorce since the 1960s

Question 5

Beck and Giddens

Answer 5

Individuals become more unwilling to remain with a partner if the relationship fails to deliver personal fulfilment

Question 6

What do New Right think of the meaning of a high divorce rate ?

Answer 6

Undesirable - undermines traditional nuclear family

Question 7

What do feminists think of a high divorce rate ?

Answer 7

Desirable as it undermines the traditional nuclear family

Question 8

What do interactionists think of a high divorce rate

Answer 8

Aims to understand what divorce means to an individual

Question 9

Fletcher

Answer 9

Higher expectations of marriage make couples less willing to tolerate an unhappy marriage
^ Ideology of romantic love

Question 10

Brannen

Answer 10

Describes the beanpole family as extended vertically not horizontally

Question 11

Willmort

Answer 11

Argues extended family continues to exist as a ‘dispersed nuclear family’
^ relatives are geographically separated but maintain contact through visits and phone calls

Question 12

Ballard

Answer 12

Extended family ties provided an important source of support among Asian migrants during the 1950s/60s

Question 13

Mirza

Answer 13

The higher proportion of black female lone - headed families reflects the value black women place on independence

Question 14

Chester

Answer 14

For most people cohabitation is part of the process of getting married

Question 15

Renevolze

Answer 15

Single by choice
^ many long parent families are female headed because mothers are single by choice due to abuse

Question 16

Murray

Answer 16

Blames welfare benefits being too generous for the increase in lone parent families

Question 17

Ferri and Smith

Answer 17

Found step families are very similar to nuclear families in all major respects

Question 18

Stonewall

Answer 18

5-7% of adult population have same sex partnerships