Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cohabitation
- Emancipation of women
- Wilkinson 1994
- Women in the 'genderquake', no longer
prioritise marriage and children as they
may have done in the past.
- Changing social attitudes
- British Social Attitudes Survey 1989 - 2012
- 1 of 1 71% in 1989 believed that those who
want children ought to be married, in 2012
this was just 42%
- Secularisation
- Gibson
- UK has gone through a period of
secularisation where the churches values are
no longer prioritised.
- Berthoud
- Acceptance of sex before marriage.
- Key information
- 5.9M in 2012, twice that of 1996
- Hanna and Grainger
- See it as a "socially legitimate
family environment for child
bearing"