changing patterns

Question 1

two ways women are no longer financially dependant upon men

Answer 1

• more in paid work
• welfare

Question 2

5 reasons theres an increase in divorce

Answer 2

• financial position of women
• secularisation
• decline in stigma
• changing laws
• rising expectations of marriage due to media

Question 3

why does Fletcher say rising expectations of marriage causes divorce

Answer 3

less likley to tolerate unhappiness

Question 4

what does changes in law mean there is a reduction of

Answer 4

empty shell marriages

Question 5

why does fletcher say there is evidence for dissatisfaction with relationship not marraige as an institution

Answer 5

remarriage

Question 6

what percent of marriages end in divorce

Answer 6

40%

Question 7

why do feminists criticise functionalist belief about rise in divorce

Answer 7

fail to explain why women are most liklet to file for it

Question 8

statistic for rise in cohabitation

Answer 8

in 80s 70% of people thought those with children should be married, but only 40% do now

Question 9

evidence for cohabitation being a trial marruage

Answer 9

chester - 75% of couples expect to marry each other

Question 10

why do afro caribbeans have highest rate of lone parenthood

Answer 10

salvery women and children kept together but men seperated - this cycle persists

Question 11

what percent of children born out of wedlock

Answer 11

47%

Question 12

Hoschild on feminist explanations of divorce

Answer 12

• home is more unfavourable to work because they are valued at work, not home
• mens resistance to domestic work causes tension and frustration

Question 13

2 feminist explanations for divorce

Answer 13

• dual burden - paid and domestic work
• private sphere change is slower than public

Question 14

murray on lone parenthood

Answer 14

• due to welfare creating a depedancy culture
• threatening norms of society so should stop welfare

Question 15

evaluation for murray on loneparenthood (2)

Answer 15

• 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

Question 16

why do postmodernsist say there is a rise in divorce (3)

Answer 16

individualisation and self interest
- beck - relationships fragile
- giddens - pure relationships - purely for personal fulfillment not duty to kids or tradition

Question 17

3 statistics about one person households

Answer 17

• rise in living alone
• almost half are over 65
• 3/10 households

Question 18

why are there more one person households

Answer 18

• incraesed seperation and divorce
• decline in marriage
• LAT - living paart together - too early in relationship to move in (duncan)

Question 19

what does weeks say about found family

Answer 19

same sex couples look for -friendhsip as kin’ to replicate secuirty and stability of hetero families

Question 20

how many famileus are reconstituted

Answer 20

10%

Question 21

crow on reconstituted families

Answer 21

tensions in family from diff parental figures as well as the ones not in marriage

Question 22

why are reconstituted families more likely to be in poverty

Answer 22

• could have to pay child support to other family
• more children

Question 23

how many women head lone parent families

Answer 23

90%

Question 24

why are women more likley to head lone parent families (2)

Answer 24

• belief that they have nurturing and expressive role
• courts usually give them custody