Cohabitation,Marriage and Divorces

Question 1

What is Cohabitation?

Answer 1

two people living together in the same residence whilst also being part of an intimate romantic relationship.

Question 2

What is LAT (Living Apart Together)?

Answer 2

couples who are in a committed intimate relationship or marriage but live at separate addresses.

Question 3

What is Divorce?

Answer 3

the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body

Question 4

What is the Reason for increase in Divorce?

Answer 4

-Changing attitudes to relationships
-Reduced in stigma and secularisation
-Changing gender roles
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Question 5

Consequences of divorce on a family?

Answer 5

• Conflict within the family - impact on children of parental conflict over access, finance and new relationships
• Greater number of remarriages, more lone-parent families and more lone-person households within society
• Financial issues for partners - loss of second income, additional costs of living apart

Question 6

What is the reason for a decline in marriage?

Answer 6

-Changing role of women
-Changing social attitudes
-Increase in cohabitation

Question 7

What is the reason for a increase in marriage?

Answer 7

-Greater social acceptance
-Changes in legislation
-Changing representations in the media

Question 8

Evaluation of increase in same sex relationships?

Answer 8

-There has been an improvement in status of same-sex relationships, figures in census may not be reliable due to social stigmas within some communities
-it is difficult to tell if there has been an increase in same-sex relationships or there has been a greater openness about relationships

Question 9

What is the reason for rise in lone parent families?

Answer 9

-Changing position of women
-Less stigma attached to lone parenting
-Changing attitudes to relationships

Question 10

What is the reason for changes in extended families?

Answer 10

-Geographical and social mobility
-Ethnic diversity in family structures
-state policies and welfare

Question 11

Evaluation of Extended of family

Answer 11

-Extended families may have reduced in living under same roof over time, however kinship networks remain
-Family has become extended through technology with virtual links to family that have migrated - modified extended family

Question 12

What is the reason for rise in reconstituted families?

Answer 12

-Increase divorce
-Changing attitudes to relationships
-Changing attitudes to social institutions