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2022
Changes in the law are the main reason for the pattern of divorce.
Changes in the law; DRA 1969 lead to a spike in divorce rates; Irretrievable Breakdown.
Functionalist Parsons: "increase in divorce reflects the higher values and expectations that people place on marriage."
Feminists: "70% divorces initiated by women, as a result of the dual burden."
The nuclear family is still considered the norm.
Charles Murray: NF = best family for children to develop.
Rapoports and increasing diversity.
Leach: Cereal Packet Family
2021
Traditional nuclear family is the most appropriate family type in which to raise children.
Murdock & Parsons, function of NF
Feminism: Canalisation
Charles Murray.
Gender inequalities continue to exist within the family in Britain today.
Feminists: Dual Burden and unequal division of labour.
Willmott and Young on the symmetrical family.
Women's changed status (47% now in workforce).
2020
Families in Britain are symmetrical.
Willmott and Young
Ann Oakley: Despite shared housework, women still did the majority.
Duncombe & Marsden: Triple Shift (work, domestic, emotional).
Extended family is still important
Economic Support, fulfilling Parsons' Functions.
Reduce Triple Shift.
Extended Families rose by 75% in 2019 (1.1% of all families).
Feminists: Woman has to also look after grandparents.
2019
Families are the main agent of
socialisation.
Parsons
Palmer (toxic childhood)
Marxist (false consciousness) or Feminist (canalisation).
Marriage is still important in Britain today
Decline of marriage by 3.4% in 2014
Popularity of marriage by same-sex couples (9000 changed CP to Marriage in 2015)
The average cost = over £20,000.
Mock
Feminism has changed marriage in modern Britain
Feminist Legal Policies (Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex Discrimination Act 1975)
Changing attitudes of women.
Feminist theories still exploitive of women.
Social classes have different experiences of marriage and family life.
Marxist: Bourgeois vs Proletarian
Rapoports on class diversity.
Other Rapoport factors.