Family & Social Change

Question 1

Changes

Answer 1

• Number of nuclear families have declined
• divorce rates have increased
• same sex relationships
• more cohabitation
• more re-marriages

Question 2

Changing patterns of divorce

Answer 2

Since the 1960 great increase divorce in the uk due to changes in law

Question 3

Explanations for divorce- before 1857

Answer 3

• changes in law
• divorce was very difficult to obtain in the 19th century especially for women
• before 1857 divorce was virtually non existent, men could divorce unfaithful wives but women had to prove husbands matrimonial offence

Question 4

Three kinds of law change - divorce

Answer 4

• Equalising the grounds for divorce between sex
• widening the grounds for divorce
• making divorce cheaper

Question 5

Empty shell marriages

Answer 5

Staying together normally for kids sake

Question 6

Juliet Mitchell and jack goody

Answer 6

Note their has been a rapid decline on the stigma attached to divorce - divorce is now seen as more of a misfortune

Question 7

New right/ feminism

Answer 7

• new right see divorce as undesirable- undermining marriage and breaking the traditional nuclear family which they regard as social stability
• feminists see divorce as desirable because it shows women are beaming free

Question 8

Rising expectations of marriage-fletcher

Answer 8

Argued that higher expectations people place on marriage are a major cause of rising divorce rates- people are less willing to tolerate unhappy marriage

Question 9

Marriage points

Answer 9

• less people are getting married
• more are getting married later
• less people are getting married in a church
• declining stigma of alternatives to marriage- cohabitation

Question 10

Same sex relationships -weeks

Answer 10

• in 2013 same sex marriages & civil partnerships became legal in England
• weeks- sees gays as creating families based on friendship he describes these as the ‘chosen families’- they offer the same security & stability as heterosexual couples

Question 11

Beanpole family -Julia Brannen

Answer 11

• particular type of extended family which brannen describes as long and thin
• extends vertically through three or more generations -grandparents, parents & children
• doesn’t extent horizontally - doesn’t include aunts, uncles, cousins etc

Question 12

Education safeguarding

Answer 12

All children have to be protected by the safeguarding act in skl

Question 13

Conservative government

Answer 13

Gave illegitimate children- child born outside of marriage- tried to give the same rights to children even tho their parents aren’t married

Question 14

1870-1893

Answer 14

First of parliament acts to create education compulsory