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changing family patterns - partnership - Coggle Diagram
changing family patterns - partnership
highest rate of marriage - late 20s
→
Berthoud 2000
-
75% Pakistani & Bangladeshi
women married by 25 & 50% of white women
teenage marriage -
twice
likely to end in divorce
divorce more likely in first
5-7 & 10-14 years
when kids leave
childless couples & diff social class/ religion face higher rates of divorce
Cohabitation
unmarried couple living together
increased w/
25%
of all unmarried adults under 60 -
double 1986 #
○ temporary formal arrangement
○ alternative to marriage
○ prep for marriage
Why?
decline in stigma
- seen as more acceptable
increased career opp. for women
- less need for financial security
secularisation
- ppl w/ no religion more likely to cohabit
Coast 2006
-
75%
cohabiting couples expected to marry eachother
same sex relation. increase in cohabitation
→
stonewall 2008
-
5-7%
british adults in same sex relationships
Living apart together
significant relation. but are not married or cohabiting
Why?
○ choose to remain in own homes
○ not afford to live together
○ long distance realtion.
Haskey 2005
- found 2 million couples living like this
→ 30% men & women - 16-59