Changing patterns of divorce- Families and households

Question 1

What are the 5 reasons for increase of divorce?

Answer 1

• changing roles of women
• declining stigma
• secularization
• changes in the law
• increasing expectations

Question 2

Juliet Mitchell and jack goody

Answer 2

identified the rapid decline in stigma towards divorce since the 1960s.

Question 3

3 changes in the law for divorce

Answer 3

• cheaper
• equal for sexes
• widening the grounds

Question 4

year for made cheaper

Answer 4

1949

Question 5

year for equalising for the sexes

Answer 5

1969

Question 6

year for widening the grounds

Answer 6

1971

Question 7

what was introduced for making it cheaper

Answer 7

the introduction for legal aid for divorce

Question 8

what was introduced for making it equal for sexes

Answer 8

divorce reform act

Question 9

what was introduced for widening the grounds

Answer 9

irreducible breakdown

Question 10

Roland Fletcher

Answer 10

identified the rising expectations of marriage and considered it as one of the main reasons for divorce, people are less likely to tolerate an unhappy marriage

Question 11

smart and stephens

Answer 11

many women don’t consider men today as marriage worthy

Question 12

allan and crow 2001

Answer 12

marriage seen as more of a relationship than a commitment or arrangement

Question 13

morgan

Answer 13

lots of people choose to cohabit rather than marry

Question 14

smart and Neil

Answer 14

mother child relationships more appealing

Question 15

drew 1998

Answer 15

it is particularly women who have rising expectations of marriage