Divorce

Question 1

What are the 7 parts for divorce?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is the matrimonial causes act and what year?

Answer 2

1857 - men could divorce unfaithful wives

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

EVALUATION: what has changed towards divorce now?

Answer 5

Public attitudes towards divorce

Question 6

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

Answer 6

There has been a rapid decline since the 1960s

Question 7

What has divorce become more off these days?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Which 3 family patterns tend to be fairly traditional?

Answer 8

• most children are brought up by couples
• couples marry
• couples re - marry

Question 9

How do churches view divorce now and do people care about religious views?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Yes they allow people to even get remarried. Yes

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

How does women’s economic position affect divorce?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Do men get paid more than women?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

How does education and welfare benefits help women?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What do feminists say about the dual burden?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What is public and private sphere?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What does Hochschild (1997) say?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What does Sigle Rushton (2007) say about women?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What does Bernaid say about women and patriarchy?

Answer 22

Women are dissatisfied with patriarchal marriage and will reject it

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

EVALUATION: what did functionalist say about pure relationships?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What are the three divorce trends?

Answer 27

• increase in divorce
• most divorces are started by women
• some couples are more likely than others to divorce

Question 28

What are the reasons for the five high divorce rates?

Answer 28

• 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