Changing Trends In Family

Question 1

Divorce - decline in stigma

Answer 1

Julliet Michale and Jack Goody

Question 2

Divorce - decline in stigma

Answer 2

Julliet Michale and Jack Goody

Question 3

Divorce - rising expectations of marriage

Answer 3

Fletcher

Question 4

Divorce - feminist argument - women felt more valued at work than at home

Answer 4

Hochschild

Question 5

Divorce - feminist argument - divorce less likely when roles were more traditional

Answer 5

Sigle-Rushton

Question 6

Divorce - feminist argument - women are becoming dissatisfied with patriarchal marriage

Answer 6

Bernard

Question 7

Beck and Giddens

Answer 7

Divorce - modernity and individualism

Question 8

McRobbie and Sue Sharpe

Answer 8

Marriage - CPOW

Question 9

Chester

Answer 9

Cohabitation is stepping stone to marriage

Question 10

Coast

Answer 10

75% of cohabiting couples expect to get married

Question 11

Chandler

Answer 11

Cohabitation is a valid alternative to marriage

Question 12

Benjin

Answer 12

Cohabitation among young people is a conscious step away from marriage

Question 13

Shelton and John

Answer 13

Women who cohabit do less housework

Question 14

Weeks

Answer 14

Chosen families are similar to heterosexual families

Question 15

Weston

Answer 15

Same sex cohabitation is a ‘quasi’-marriage

Question 16

Allan and Crow

Answer 16

Same sex relationships are more flexible and less stable than heterosexual ones

Question 17

Eniasdottir

Answer 17

Gay couples want their relationship to be seen differently than a heterosexual one

Question 18

Stein

Answer 18

Creative singlehood - deliberate choice to live alone

Question 19

Duncan and Philips

Answer 19

10% of adults are LATs

Question 20

Charles Murray

Answer 20

New Right explanation for lone parent families

Question 21

Ferri and Smith

Answer 21

Pros and Cons of reconstituted families

Question 22

Allan and Crow

Answer 22

Stepfamilies face divided loyalties

Question 23

McCarthy

Answer 23

Diversity among stepfamilies

Question 24

Mirza

Answer 24

Black families - black women place high value on independence

Question 25

Reynolds

Answer 25

Stats on LPFs are misleading

Question 26

Ballard

Answer 26

Asian families - extended family provides support among migrants

Question 27

Willmott

Answer 27

Extended family is important - provides support even from long distances

Question 28

Chamberlain

Answer 28

Extended family is important - Caribbean families support each other from distances