Marriage

Question 1

Reason for Decline in Marriage

Answer 1

Women are more financially independent-less of a financial necessity to marry

Less religious observance-can co-habit without being seen as living in sin

Rising divorce rates can put a negative light on marriage

Expense-the adverse cost of a wedding can be over 20,000 Co-habiting an attractive, cheaper option

Question 2

The rise in cohabitation

Answer 2

Something that happens before a couple decides to get married - a trail run
An alternative to marriage- living as a married couple without the legal document

Question 3

Why is there more divorces happening ?

Answer 3

1969 divorce reform act

Question 4

What is the 1969 Divorce Reform Act

Answer 4

This act introduced irretrievable breakdown as the grounds for divorce to be proved through adultery desertion or unreasonable behaviour

No fault of living apart for two years

Question 5

What’s an empty shell marriage

Answer 5

When a couple are still married and mine in the same house but lead separate lives

Question 6

What is there for domestic abuse

Answer 6

Women can go to the local authorities and the police take it seriously
There’s refuge centres

Question 7

Increase in divorce

Consequences for husband and wife’s

Answer 7

More remarriages
More cohabiting
More decisions about dividing property and possessions
Having to agree on where child will live
Financially
Emotionally

Question 8

Increase of divorce

Consequences for the family

Answer 8

An increase in lone parents
Children living with one parent but keeping in regular contact with the other
An increase in the number of reconstituted families. Most children stay with their mother if she remarried

Question 9

Increase of divorce

Consequences for children

Answer 9

Adjusting to a new sit of relationships
Keeping in contact with the parent they are not living with
They have the best of both worlds as they are now attached to two families

Question 10

What are role relationship in the family and how have they changed over time

Answer 10

Wage earning , domestic roles , decision making and childcare are now shared between men and women (the new man)

Question 11

What is symmetrical family

Answer 11

Male and female roles were similar and balanced

Question 12

What is stratified diffusion

Answer 12

Whereby the way of life of those at the top of the class structure filtered down to those below them

Question 13

What is the crisis of masculinity

Answer 13

They struggle with changing roles and with not being the bread winner because women are being equal

Question 14

Why did family roles change

Answer 14

Women focused on work fewer children
Men staying at home
Families becoming child centred

Question 15

What is a child centred family

Answer 15

Focussed on and around the children

Question 16

What is a dual burden

Answer 16

Women are increasingly involved in full-time paid work and are also expected to be responsible for the bulk of the housework

Question 17

What is the triple shift

Answer 17

Working full time - house work also emotional work making sure everyone’s happy

Question 18

What is invisible work

Answer 18

Women think about what to have for dinner , family issues ,doing the shopping lists

Question 19

What is decision making

Answer 19

Women make most of the day-to-day family decisions but the big decisions are often made by the person who earns the most money

Question 20

What is money management

Answer 20

Rather than one partner having control of family finances there is much more evidence now of money being pooled from the earnings of both partners and going into a joint account

Question 21

What is the role conflict

Answer 21

Conflict between the successful performances of two or more roles at the same time

Question 22

What is the parenting and childcare

Answer 22

Fathers are doing more childcare
Smaller role in childcare
Fathers spend less time with there child than the mother

Question 23

What’s the house husband

Answer 23

Rise of men who stay at home ,look after children ,do housework

Question 24

What is role reversal

Answer 24

This occurs when men cannot find work or where the women can earn more money

Question 25

Children in families

Answer 25

Very child centred

Lot of child live happy lives but some are in poor conditions

Question 26

The third age

Answer 26

About 20% of the uk population is 65 or older

There children have moved on and while enjoying there retirement they provide unpaid childcare