Marriage and Cohabitation

Question 1

marriage

Answer 1

legal union between 2 people through a religious or civil ceremony
the marriage (same sex couples) act took place in 2015

Question 2

monogamy

Answer 2

being married to 1 person at a time

Question 3

serial monogamy

Answer 3

getting married, divorcing and then marrying someone else

Question 4

polygamy

Answer 4

having 2 or more partners

is possible due to cultural, economic and religious reasons

Question 5

polygyny

Answer 5

a man having 2 or more wives

this maximises the number of kids and is done due to economic reasons (dowry)

Question 6

polyandry

Answer 6

a woman having 2 or more husbands

this restricts the number of children in areas with limited resources

Question 7

bigamy

Answer 7

polygamy but when its illegal in a country

Question 8

civil partnership

Answer 8

legal recognition go a homosexual relationship
civil partnership act took place in 2005
straight couples can get a civil partnership since 2018

Question 9

arranged marriage

Answer 9

marriage arranged by parents to match their kids with partners of similar status and background
its done to maintain cultural traditions

Question 10

marriage trends

Answer 10

marriage rates are declining
most marriages are through civil ceremonies rather that religious
people are getting married at a later age

Question 11

civil partnership trends

Answer 11

they’ve levelled out since 2005

average age of first civil partnership’s high

Question 12

cohabitations trends

Answer 12

cohabitations increasing

60% of cohabitants turn to marriage

Question 13

why is there a decrease on the rates of first marriages

Answer 13

• weddings are expensive
• fear of divorce
• changes in social attitudes –> no stigma to pre marital sex so for women that have out of marriage pregnancies dont feel the need to get married
• Influence of feminisms –> SHARPE -interviewed girls in 1976, their dreams were ,marriage and family based, when interviewed girls in 1994, their dreams based on education and career

Question 14

why is there an increase in remarriage

Answer 14

• changes in social attitudes- serial monogamy’s acceptable
• Increase in secularisation
• mass media promotes idea of romantic love- people continue to find love after first marriage ends

Question 15

why are people marrying at a later age

Answer 15

• changes in social attitudes–> no stigma attached to being single, especially for women
• weddings are expensive–> people save up for long
• Increase in secularisation
• influence of feminism–> WILKINSON- increased opportunities for women in work and education leads them to post posing marriage until careers established

Question 16

why is there an increasing singlehood

Answer 16

• increase in divorce
• marriage at later age
• Increased life expectancy- become widows and live alone
• STEIN–> people choose to live alone even if in a relationship= creative singlehood
• DUNCAN AND PHILLIPS- LATs

Question 17

why is there an increase in cohabitation

Answer 17

• WEEKS–> changing social attitudes- premarital sex and cohabitations now acceptable
• Increase in secularisation- its not seen as ‘living in sin’ and people have freedom to choose alternatives to marriage
• BENJIN- its a conscious attempt of creating more equal relationship
• ——-> SHELTON AND JOHN-cohabiting women do less housework that married women
• attitudes to marriage are changing–> quality of marriage is more important that its legal status
• CHESTER–> cohabitations not an alternative to marriage as it’ll lead to it, its a practice marriage