Changing Family Patterns

Question 1

Divorce

Answer 1

Changing patterns of divorce
Explanation of the increase in divorce-declining stigma and changing attitudes secularisation, rising expectations of marriage, women’s increased financial independence, feminist explanations,modernity and individualisation.
The meaning of a high divorce rate

Question 2

Partnerships

Answer 2

Marriage-Reasons for changing patterns
cohabitation- reasons for increase, cohabitation and marriage, trial marriage
Same-sex relationships- chosen families
One-person households- reasons for changing, last

Question 3

Parents and children

Answer 3

Childbearing- reasons for change
Lone parent families- reasons for patterns, lone parenthood the welfare state and poverty
Stepfamilies- reasons for the patterns

Question 4

Ethnic differences

Answer 4

Black families

Asian families

Question 5

Extended families

Answer 5

Beanpole

obligations to relatives