Marriage Flashcards
Remarriages
2012 - 1/3 of marriages were remarraiges
Marriage patterns
- Fewer marrying
- more remarried
- marrying later
- marrying outside church
Reasons for changes
- decline in stigma
- Secularitsation
- Women working
- Fear of divorce
Cohabitation and Marriage
coast - 75% see cohabitation as a step before marriage
Coast
75% of couples see cohabitation as a step before marriage
Weeks
Gay Chosen Families made up of friends etc for support
British Social Attitudes Survey
1/10 live alone but are in relationships, this accounts for half of all ‘singles’
1/10 live alone but are in relationships, this accounts for half of all ‘singles’
British Social attitudes survey BSAS
Reynolds
Figures of lone parent are misleading as many singles are in relations just not living together
Charles
Extended family is all but extinct
Willmott
COunter for charles
Extended family exists as a dispersed extended
Beanpole family
Long and thin, Charles found contact between kids and parents but not between children. Makes family tree ‘beanpole’