Changing Family Patterns

Question 0

Other options to divorce:

Legal separation - define it

Answer 0

Court separates financial and legal affairs but remain married so NOT free to marry

Question 1

Other options to divorce :

Desertion- define it

Answer 1

One leaves but remain legally married = NOT free to remarry

Question 2

Other options to divorce :

Empty shell -define it

Answer 2

Live under the same roof. Married in names only. NOT free to marry

Question 3

Give 5 explanations for increase in divorce:

Answer 3

1- changes in the law
2- declining stigma and changing attitudes 
3- secularisation .....less religion
4- rising expectations of marriage 
5- changes in the position of war

Question 4

In what year was the Divorce Reform Act introduced ???????

Answer 4

1969

Question 5

Between what years did the rates of divorce double?

Answer 5

1961 and 1969

1969 and 1972 doubled again

Question 6

What % of marriages end in divorce ??

Answer 6

40%

Question 7

How many petitions for divorce now come from women???

Answer 7

7/10 divorce petitions now come from women

Question 8

Couples more likely to end in divorce are :

Answer 8

Young marriages
Child before marry
Cohab before marriage
Both been married before

Question 9

What does Horschild 1997 say?

Answer 9

Argues that for many women, the home compares unfavourAbly with work.
At work the women feel valued. At home men’s continuing resistance to doing housework is a source of frustration and makes marriage less stable.

Question 10

Meaning of high divorce rates for: new right

Answer 10

See high D.R as undesirable. It undermines the traditional nuclear family. Creates an underclass of welfare dependant female lone parents and leaves boys w/o male role model

Question 11

Meaning of high divorce rates for: feminists

Answer 11

See high D.R as desirable. Shows that women are breaking from the oppression of the patriarchal nuclear family

Question 12

Meaning of high divorce rates for: postmodernists

Answer 12

See high D.R as giving individuals freedom to choose the end a relationship when it no longer meets their needs. See it as a greater cause of family diversity

Question 13

Meaning of high divorce rates for: functionalists

Answer 13

Argue that high D.R does not necessarily prove that marriage as a social institute is under threat. Simply the result of peoples higher expectations of marriage today. High rates of remarriages shows peoples continuing committment the idea of marriage.

Question 14

Meaning of high divorce rates for: Interactionalists

Answer 14

Aim to understand what divorce means to the individual.

MORGAN 1996 argues meaning of divorce cannot be generalised.

Question 15

How many children are now born out of marriage?

Answer 15

40%
4/10
Which is 5X more than in 1971

Question 16

What percentage of families are lone parent?

Answer 16

24%

Question 17

What are perverse incentives???

Answer 17

Rewarding irresponsible behaviour and punishment responsible behaviour