Family demography

Question 1

sources

Answer 1

ONS, Census

Question 2

birth rate

Answer 2

women position, IMR decline, child-centeredness, child labour laws

Question 3

infant mortality rate

Answer 3

better nutrition, sanitation, hygiene, housing

Question 4

death rate

Answer 4

decline in disease, better medicine, nutrition, health and safety, more diseases of affluence

Question 5

ageing population

Answer 5

increased life expectancy, IMR decline, nutrition, medicine, public health

Question 6

migration

Answer 6

legislation, globalisation/geographical mobility, push & pull factors

Question 7

singlehood

Answer 7

increased life expectancy, female employment (equality laws and ERA), uni students, divorce rate, change in attitudes (sharpe, Durkheim-‘cult of the individual’)

Question 8

marriage rate

Answer 8

secularisation, social attitudes, womens position, increased divorce, cohabitation, confluent love (giddens)

Question 9

divorce rate

Answer 9

DLRA ‘71 & ‘irretrievable breakdown’, decline in stigma, secularisation, increase in romantic expectations, women position, chaos of love (beck & beck-gernsheim)

Question 10

cohabitation

Answer 10

attitudes, secularisation, womens position, fear of divorce, cost of weddings, trial period (chester)

Question 11

other family types

Answer 11

LATs, childrearing and lone parent