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Changes in Marriage (Singlehood & Lone-parent families (There are lone…
Changes in Marriage
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Divorce Rate
In 1971 divorce was only allowed if one partner was having sex with someone else, there was cruelty, or insanity, or desertion.
in 1969 the Divorce Reform Act allowed people who were unhappily married to divorce. However they still had to have been married for three years and provide evidence for an 'irretrievable breakdown'
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Since 2013, Legal Aid made it easier to pay for a divorce.
Anthony Giddens :star:argues that nowadays people are less prepared to stay in 'empty marriages' like their parents or grandparents might have done.
Changing Roles of men, children, and old people
According to a study by Esther Dermott :star: in 2003, men want to spend more time with their children.
In the 1970s Ann Oakley argued that women have a dual burden (work and housework). In 1995, Duncombe and Marsden :star: added emotion to this, and renamed it the Triple Shift.
Neil Postman :star: argues that childhood is disappearing. Evidence for this is beauty pageants, technology, access to the internet, computer games (shooting games)
Older people are living longer, which means more resources are being used, health services are required more, living spaces are taken up, and there are higher taxes to support the elderly. Boomerang children are children who come back to their parents after a break up because the can't afford to support themselves
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Family Size
A woman born in 1964 will have had an average of 1.9 children whereas her mother's average would've been 2.4 children
Women are having less children because: the decline in the nuclear family, getting married later, women have more rights, change in norms, secularisation, more focused on jobs than families, contraception
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