🔥🔴✅Family Divorce stats

Question 1

Divorce:

How many divorces in 2000?

Answer 1

141,000

Question 2

Divorce:

What % of marriages end in divorce?

Answer 2

40%

Question 3

Divorce:

When was the divorce reform act?

Answer 3

1969

Question 4

Divorce:

What did fletcher claim about divorce?

Answer 4

That people don’t demand what we should from marriage and we give up too easily

Question 5

Divorce:
What does Kurtz claim about divorce?
In what year?

Answer 5

Women are economically independent so will get divorced quicker
-1995

Question 6

Divorce:
What do Allen and Crow claim about divorce?
In what year?

Answer 6

They state that without money you still have welfare payments in GB therefore don’t rely on nuclear family
-2001

Question 7

Divorce:
What does Gittens claim about divorce?
What fact supports this?

Answer 7

Women are more likely to petition divorce

-2/3 of divorces are brought about by women

Question 8

Divorce:

What is the average time together before marriage?

Answer 8

12 years but this constantly changes

Question 9

Divorce:

What do Kierman and Mueller argue about divorce?

Answer 9

Argue that unemployment, reliance on benefits and low income all associated with high divorce rates

Question 10

Divorce:
What did Crockett and trip find about what divorce can cause?
Where and when was this?

Answer 10

Children from 1 parent families are more like to face a range of disadvantages including under achieving in school, higher rates of mental illness, increased criminal convictions and higher rates of divorce and suicide.
-Exeter University in 1995

Question 11

Divorce:

What do new right sociologists such as Norman Dennis believe divorce can cause?

Answer 11

They believe that the breakdown of the nuclear family causes increasing crime rates. For example 96% of the prison Population is male due to inadequate socialisation of the working class

Question 12

Divorce:

What does new rights sociologist Charles Murray believe divorce has cause a growth of?

Answer 12

The underclass also known as the ‘new rabble’ of the ‘Jeremy Kyle Generation’ who are ‘sponging off the state’.

Question 13

Divorce:

What does Murray suggest about divorce?

Answer 13

Causes emergence in single parent families that’s linked with hooliganism, drug abuse and educational failure

Question 14

Divorce:
Why did Cashmore support divorce?
What year was this?

Answer 14

It is safer and preferable for a child to live in a lone parent family instead of a living with one caring and one uncaring parent.
1985

Question 15

Single parent families

What does Cashmore argue about single parent families?

Answer 15

Single women parents live alone which is beneficial as it gives them greater independence

Question 16

Single parent families:

What do Marsland and Saunders suggest about single parent families?

Answer 16

They constitute a major part of a criminal underclass which encourages their children to be anti-authority, anti-education, idle and anti social.

Question 17

Single parenthood:

How do the new right influence the government?

Answer 17

For example including the CSA policy to make absent fathers pay for their children rather than replying on the state

Question 18

Single parent families:

What do Mclabahan and Booth 1991 argue?

Answer 18

The lack of duel income means they are more likely to live in poverty, become low earners and drug abusers

Question 19

In 2000 what % of African Caribbean families with dependent children were lone parent?

Answer 19

50%

Question 20

Single parent

What did Berthoud 1999 argue about Afro Caribbean families?

Answer 20

They have the lowest marriage rate, highest proportion of single mothers and highest divorce rate.

Question 21

What % of 1 parent households live off the state?

Answer 21

75%

Question 22

What % of households are single parent?

Answer 22

25%

Question 23

What % of single parent households are headed by women?

Answer 23

90%

Question 24

What is the average age of a single mother?

Answer 24

34

Question 25

What is the largest cause of single parents?

Answer 25

Divorce

Question 26

What does Hertherington argue about children from single parent households

Answer 26

3 our of 4 suffer no long term damage