Relationship Break Down Flashcards
Types of relationship breakdown 3
- Separation
- Divorce
- Empty shell
Why have people lived in empty shell marriages in the past
2
- No divorce until divorce reform act 1971
- Social expectations
Divorces in covid
2020 - low - courtss shut
2022 - high - finally acted
Changes of divorce?
50/50
DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
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1857 - matrimonial cause act
1949 - legal aid act
1971 - divorce reform act
1996 - family law act
DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
- 1857 - matrimonial cause act
Only divorce for adultery and desertion - females didn’t count
DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
- 1949 - legal aid act
Financial help to aid divorce
DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
- 1971 - divorce reform act
Increased access to divorce - no need for proof
2 years seperation needed
DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
- 1996 - family law act
Increased amount of Time married before divorce 12-18 and marriage councilling
REASONS FOR DIVORCE
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- Privatised nuclear family
- Higher expectations of marriage
- Change in social attitudes
- Changing roles of women
- Individualisation
REASONS FOR DIVORCE
1. Privatised nuclear family
•Parsons - nuclear family recently separated from extended so less pressure
REASONS FOR DIVORCE
2. Higher expectations of marriage
Confluent love
REASONS FOR DIVORCE
3. Change in social attitudes
Secularisation 1960s onwards
REASONS FOR DIVORCE
4. Changing roles of women
•pre divorce reforms act, divorces initiated by men
-now 65% initiated by women
-less financially dependent and tolerant of DV
REASONS FOR DIVORCE
5. Individualisation
Beck and beck Gernsheim
Selflessness of relationships clash with selfishness of individualisation
Confluent love
