Divorce Flashcards

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What are the 7 parts for divorce?

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Changes in law, Declining stigma, Secularisation, Rising expectations of marriage, CPOW, Feminists arguments, STRETCH: modernity and individualisation

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What is the matrimonial causes act and what year?

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1857 - men could divorce unfaithful wives

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What year was the equalised divorce? What year was legal aid? What was the act in 1984?

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1923, 1949, legislation reduced the amount of time to be married before getting a divorce

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What year is divorce reform act? When was the family law act and what is it? What happened in 2007? What year is the same sex marriage?

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1969, 1996 and mediation before divorce, appeal court ruling (50-50 split), 2014

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EVALUATION: what has changed towards divorce now?

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Public attitudes towards divorce

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What did Juliet Mitchel and Jack Goody (1997) say about stigma?

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There has been a rapid decline since the 1960s

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What has divorce become more off these days?

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More socially acceptable and more common so it begins to get normalised

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Which 3 family patterns tend to be fairly traditional?

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  • most children are brought up by couples
  • couples marry
  • couples re - marry
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How do churches view divorce now and do people care about religious views?

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Churches have softened their views on divorce and divorcees and people don’t care about religious views when it comes to divorce.

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EVALUATION: do Church of England people allow divorces? is there still a demand for religious weddings?

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Yes they allow people to even get remarried. Yes

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What does Ronald Fletcher (1966) say about marriage today?

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There is higher expectations if it and couples nowadays are less willing to tolerate in an unhappy marriage.

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What is romantic love based on and how is today’s marriage viewed?

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It is based on mutual love rather than economic reasons or duty and marriage today is viewed as where individuals seek personal fulfilment and not a binding contract.

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EVALUATION: what does fletcher (functionalist) say? what do feminists say?

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They have an optimistic view so they fail to explain why women are more likely to seek divorce. Oppression of women

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How does women’s economic position affect divorce?

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Their economic position will make them less financially dependent on their husbands and so it will be freer to end an unsatisfactory marriage rather than tolerating the conflict.

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Do men get paid more than women?

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Yes they get paid more but there is a narrowed paid gap

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How does education and welfare benefits help women?

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Girls greater success in education helps them achieve better jobs and the welfare benefits will make them be less dependent on their husbands.

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EVALUATION: What are women now which creates conflict between husband and wives? What do feminists say about patriarchy?

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Women now are earners and homemakers which creates conflict. Marriage remains patriarchal as it benefits men with the triple shift

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What do feminists say about the dual burden?

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It will lead to conflict which will then lead to divorce.

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What is public and private sphere?

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Public sphere is legal changes so real progress and private sphere is changes remain slow so marriage will remain patriarchal

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What does Hochschild (1997) say?

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Women are more values at work than at home as men will resist housework.

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What does Sigle Rushton (2007) say about women?

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Women are less likely to get a divorce when they have an active role in housework

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What does Bernaid say about women and patriarchy?

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Women are dissatisfied with patriarchal marriage and will reject it

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EVALUATION: what does cooke and gash (2010) say about working women? What does the new right say?

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There is no evidence of working women are more likely to divorce. They say the nuclear family is essential.

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What do Beck (1992) and Giddens (1992) say about modern society and what will this result in?

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That traditional norms are disappearing and this will result in individuals pursuing their one self interst

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What relationship are people seeking now? What is the belief about marriage.

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Pure relationships so low divorce rate. That marriage is there for personal fulfilment.

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EVALUATION: what did functionalist say about pure relationships?

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That it is breaking norms and values that hold society together.

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What are the three divorce trends?

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  • increase in divorce
  • most divorces are started by women
  • some couples are more likely than others to divorce
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What are the reasons for the five high divorce rates?

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  • the new right = undermines traditional nuclear family
  • feminism = breaking from women oppression
  • postmodernism = individuals freedom
  • functionalists = higher expectations of marriage
  • the perosnal life perspective = divorce causes problems and the family can adapt to these issues