Marriage & Family - changing attitudes

Question 1

suggest reasons for changing attitudes to marriage

Answer 1

• role of women changed ➡️ can focus on jobs
• life in general changed over last 100 years ➡️ expectations different & people have different views
• media ➡️gives views and stories on marriage

Question 2

suggest a reason for changing attitudes to divorce

Answer 2

• divorce now legal ➡️ life & expectations different ➡️ more people decide to divorce

Question 3

homosexuality became legal in …

Answer 3

1967

Question 4

same sex marriage became legal in whole of Uk in …

Answer 4

2013

Question 5

when was the divorce reform act?

Answer 5

1969

Question 6

when did divorce start to really grow?

Answer 6

from 1972

Question 7

when was the civil partnership act?

Answer 7

2004

Question 8

how & why have attitudes to cohabitation and marriage changed?

Answer 8

• sex before marriage ➡️ increases of contraception
• socially acceptable for couples to cohabit & only 34% marriages in church 2006 ➡️ christianity has lost its influence
• age of marriage has increased ➡️ not so early

Question 9

how & why attitudes to divorce changed?

Answer 9

• divorce accepted ➡️1969 divorce reform act ➡️ cheaper & easier

Question 10

how & why attitudes to family life changed?

Answer 10

• extended family more popular ➡️ cohabitation popular
• single parented families increased ➡️ increase in divorce, reconstituted families & society accepted unmarried mothers

Question 11

how and why attitudes to homosexuality changed?

Answer 11

• change of law makes it easier to be more open
• seen as more acceptable
• opens of gay celebs ➡️ led to more acceptance
• civil partnerships 2004
• organisations make it more acceptable