families and households ao2 Flashcards
What did Young and Willmott conclude about the early industrial family?
- 2 out of 3 married people had parents living within 2 to 3 miles of
- 50% of the married people in the sample had seen their mother during the previous day and more than 80% within the previous week
What did Young find when he revisited Bethnal Green?
- 21% of the sample were living in single-person households
- a further 9% lived in households of unrelated adults
- out of more than 1000 Bangladeshis, only 4 lived in single parent households
How many women will experience domestic abuse?
1 in 4
What percentage of employed women regularly undertake unpaid housework?
93%
How many honour killings are there per year in the UK?
12-15 reported honour killings
What percentage of all marriages end in divorce?
50%
What fraction of divorce petitions are initiated by women?
2/3 of women are more likely to take the first steps to ending the marriage
How did divorce change during the pandemic?
there was a 12% drop in divorce in 2020
Statistics on the ages of people in LAT relationships?
- 11% of LATs are aged 55 or over
- 33% are aged 25-34
How many lone parent families and what proportion of them are headed by women?
there are 2.9 million lone parent families - 9/10 are women
statistics on women’s use of IVF
- from 2001-2021, single women using IVF has increased by 44%
- in 2021 there were 2,800 women using IVF
What proportion of divorcees will remarry?
1/3
How many people live in single person households?
- 29% of UK households are single person households
How old are people living in single person households?
- most people are 65+
- an increasing number of people aged 45-60 are living alone
What proportion of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women are married by the age of 25?
3/4 compared to only 1/2 of white women
