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Families & Households - Coggle Diagram
Families & Households
Roles of men & women
Parsons (1955)
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Expressive role: the role of being caring, nurturing, and a house-maker, doing domestic labour at home
Bott (1957)
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Separated conjugal roles: the couple have separate roles - the female housemaker & the male breadwinner
Joint conjugal roles: the couple share tasks such as housework and childcare, they also spend their leisure time together
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Couples
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Women suffer the 'Dual Burden' of being expected to do paid labour, whilst also carrying out unpaid domestic labour at home
In turn, women have 3 roles according to Decombe & Marsden (1995):
- Domestic work
- Emotional work
- Employment
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence: physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence that takes place in an intimate or family-type relationship
Statistics
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Only in 1991, was rape within marriage made illegal
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Dobash & Dobash
Found in a series of interviews with women in women refuges in Scotland that violent incidents could be set off from what the husband sees as a challenge to his authority
David Cheal (1991)
Police are reluctant to record, investigate, or prosecute domestic violence within the family