PAPER 2 (Families - marriage, divorce)

Question 1

What is the percentage of nuclear families in the UK?

Answer 1

67%

Question 2

What is the percentage of cohabiting families in the UK?

Answer 2

18%

Question 3

What is the percentage of lone parent families in the UK?

Answer 3

15%.
With 9 out of 10 being women headed.

Question 4

What is the percentage of same-sex couple families in the UK?

Answer 4

1%

Question 5

What is the percentage of children in:
Lone parent families
Married families
Cohabiting families

Answer 5

LP - 25%
M - 64%
C - 15%

Question 6

Divorce Rate

Answer 6

Number of divorces that happen per every 1,000 people each year.

Question 7

How many divorces were there in 1970?

Answer 7

58,000

Question 8

How many divorces were there in 2019?

Answer 8

108,000

Question 9

How many marriages were there in 1970?

Answer 9

415,000

Question 10

How many marriages were there in 2019?

Answer 10

220,000

Question 11

Why may people get divorced?

Answer 11

Marrying at a young age.
Having a child before they marry.
Cohabiting before marriage.
Have been married before.

Question 12

Secularisation

Answer 12

Decline in religion. Half of British people say they are not religious. 5% of Britons go to church.

Question 13

Divorce - women’s increased financial independence.

Answer 13

Over the past 40 years, there are more women in work now - 72% and less men.
The gender pay gap is close to zero for those aged 18-39.

Question 14

Divorce - rising expectations of marriage.

Answer 14

(Fletcher)

Question 15

Divorce - women are increasingly dissatisfied with marriage.

Answer 15

Delphy and Leonard - dual burden.
Dumcombe and Marsden - triple shift.
Bernard

Question 16

Divorce - increase in modernity and individualisation.

Answer 16

(Beck and Giddens)

Question 17

Empty-shell marriage.

Answer 17

When a married couple live together, but are not in a ‘relationship anymore’. They are not in love anymore.
They do not separate due to:
Cannot afford to
The stigma, especially in religious families
Children

Question 18

Why do women cope better with divorce than men?

Answer 18

Women are more likely to get custody of the children.
Men are more likely to have no friends.

Question 19

Reasons for changes in the pattern of marriage:

Answer 19

• Higher life expectancy.
• Expensive.
• Worried about marriage.
• More career focused.

Question 20

Reasons for increase in cohabitation:

Answer 20

• Cost of living is too high.
• Weddings are expensive.
• High expectations.
• Decline in stigma of sex outside marriage.

Question 21

Main changes in childbearing since the 1960s:

Answer 21

• Women are waiting until later in life to have children.
• More women have no children.
• Half of babies are born outside of marriage.

Question 22

Reasons for changes in childbearing:

Answer 22

• Child-centredness, favour quality over quantity.
• Children are an economic liability.
• Higher life-expectancy.
• Women are working.
• Infant mortality rate has fallen.

Question 23

Reconstituted family

Answer 23

(Stepfamily) One or both partners have children from previous relationships.