changing patterns Flashcards
two ways women are no longer financially dependant upon men
- more in paid work
- welfare
5 reasons theres an increase in divorce
- financial position of women
- secularisation
- decline in stigma
- changing laws
- rising expectations of marriage due to media
why does Fletcher say rising expectations of marriage causes divorce
less likley to tolerate unhappiness
what does changes in law mean there is a reduction of
empty shell marriages
why does fletcher say there is evidence for dissatisfaction with relationship not marraige as an institution
remarriage
what percent of marriages end in divorce
40%
why do feminists criticise functionalist belief about rise in divorce
fail to explain why women are most liklet to file for it
statistic for rise in cohabitation
in 80s 70% of people thought those with children should be married, but only 40% do now
evidence for cohabitation being a trial marruage
chester - 75% of couples expect to marry each other
why do afro caribbeans have highest rate of lone parenthood
salvery women and children kept together but men seperated - this cycle persists
what percent of children born out of wedlock
47%
Hoschild on feminist explanations of divorce
- home is more unfavourable to work because they are valued at work, not home
- mens resistance to domestic work causes tension and frustration
2 feminist explanations for divorce
- dual burden - paid and domestic work
- private sphere change is slower than public
murray on lone parenthood
- due to welfare creating a depedancy culture
- threatening norms of society so should stop welfare
evaluation for murray on loneparenthood (2)
- welfare isnt helping women that much - still in poverty
- childcare being so expensive is the reason so many do not work and fathers not providing childcare
why do postmodernsist say there is a rise in divorce (3)
individualisation and self interest
- beck - relationships fragile
- giddens - pure relationships - purely for personal fulfillment not duty to kids or tradition
3 statistics about one person households
- rise in living alone
- almost half are over 65
- 3/10 households
why are there more one person households
- incraesed seperation and divorce
- decline in marriage
- LAT - living paart together - too early in relationship to move in (duncan)
what does weeks say about found family
same sex couples look for -friendhsip as kin’ to replicate secuirty and stability of hetero families
how many famileus are reconstituted
10%
crow on reconstituted families
tensions in family from diff parental figures as well as the ones not in marriage
why are reconstituted families more likely to be in poverty
- could have to pay child support to other family
- more children
how many women head lone parent families
90%
why are women more likley to head lone parent families (2)
- belief that they have nurturing and expressive role
- courts usually give them custody
