Partnerships Flashcards
Reasons for changing patterns in marriage
Change attitudes to marriage, less pressure to marry and more freedom.
Secularisation, churches in favour or marriage but as their influence declines people feel freer to choose not to marry.
Decline stigma attached to alternative to marry.
Change in the position of women.
Remarriages
Age of marrying
Church weddings - less likely to marry in a church
what is cohabitation?
Involves an unmarried couple ok a sexual relationship living together.
Reasons for increase in cohabitation
Increased career options
Secularisation - Young people with no religion more likely to cohabit
What would the new right make of rising cohabitation?
Wouldn’t like it because they’re traditional and people wont work as hard cohabiting than marriage.
Impact on children - mis behaving
What would feminists say about rising cohabitation?
They think its a good thing, because women easier to leave and women usually dominated by men.
Reasons for changes in partnerships..
Increase in separation and divorce has created more one person households.
Decline in numbers marrying means more people remaining single.
What recent changes have there been in marriage?
- fewer people are marrying
- more re-marriages
- marrying later
- less likely to marry in church
