Summary

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

1. Divorce
2. Partnerships
3. Parents and Children
4. Ethnic Differences in Family Patterns
5. Extended Family Today

Question 2

1. Divorce

Answer 2

1. Changing Patterns of Divorce

(Reasons)

2. Changes in the Law
3. Declining Stigma and Changing Attitudes
4. Secularisation
5. Rising Expectations of Marriage
6. Women’s Financial Independence
7. Feminist Explanations
8. Modernity and Individualisation
9. Meaning of a High Divorce Rate

Question 3

2. Partnerships

Answer 3

1. Marriage
2. Reasons for Changes in Marriage
3. Cohabitation
4. Reasons for Changes in Cohabitation
5. Relationship Between Cohabitation and Marriage
6. Same-Sex Relationships (+ Chosen Families)
7. One-Person Households (+ Reasons)
8. ‘Living Apart Together’

Question 4

3. Parents and Children

Answer 4

1. Childbearing
2. Reasons for Changes in Childbearing
3. Lone-Parent Families
4. Reasons for Changes in Lone-Parenthood
5. New Right approach to Lone Parenthood (+ Criticisms)
6. Step-families
7. Reasons for Changes in Step-families

Question 5

4. Ethnic Differences in Family Patterns

Answer 5

1. Immigration
2. Black Families
3. Asian Families

Question 6

5. Extended Family Today

Answer 6

1. How Widespread is Extended Family
2. ‘Beanpole’ Family
3. Obligation to Relatives