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Reasons and explanations - SY1
- Dual earner families
- increased- 43% to 60%
- DOUBLE SHIFT - RAPAPORT AND RAPAPORT 71
- possess a high commitment to family life and a career but
women end up with primary responsibilty of childcare and
domestic housework
- possess a high commitment to family life and a career but
women end up with primary responsibilty of childcare and
domestic housework
- DOUBLE SHIFT - RAPAPORT AND RAPAPORT 71
- increased- 43% to 60%
- Decline in marriage
- remarriages = 40% of all marriages, people are
marring later on in life, only a steady increase.
- AGE: increasing, CHOICE: marriage limits
freedom, FEAR OF DIVORCE
- NEWRIGHT: regards this as a decline in tradition family valuves
- contrast to feminists and postmodernists - choice and freedom
- ALLAN + CROW - suggests expectations have changed - focus is on emotional fulfilment
- ALLAN + CROW - suggests expectations have changed - focus is on emotional fulfilment
- contrast to feminists and postmodernists - choice and freedom
- remarriages = 40% of all marriages, people are
marring later on in life, only a steady increase.
- increase in divorce
- 4 in 10 will end in divorce - 7 in 70 started by women, 2008 at its lowest
- REDWALLS
- change in expectations and attitudes, loss of community,
change in women, 'till death do us part', the law and
growth in secularirty,
- change in expectations and attitudes, loss of community,
change in women, 'till death do us part', the law and
growth in secularirty,
- RODGERS AND PRYOR - 200 studies, shows how
it can create problems - economic, conflict, parental
ability, contact and changes.
- NEWRIGHT: serious threat to society - leads to a lack in socialisation and deliquency
- FEMINISTS: growth in choice and freedom
- FEMINISTS: growth in choice and freedom
- NEWRIGHT: serious threat to society - leads to a lack in socialisation and deliquency
- 4 in 10 will end in divorce - 7 in 70 started by women, 2008 at its lowest
- Ageing population
- living longer, men 76 women
80, baby boomers nearing
retirement, increased over 65
- SOCIAL TRENDS: increase in pensioners = greater demand
- imporovements in healthcare, grandparents are
more involved, better living standards, and higher
social protection
- imporovements in healthcare, grandparents are
more involved, better living standards, and higher
social protection
- SOCIAL TRENDS: increase in pensioners = greater demand
- living longer, men 76 women
80, baby boomers nearing
retirement, increased over 65
- Single persons household
- demograpic revolution, cultural change, 28% are
single, risen 18%, mostly elderly women
- CHOICE - rise in divorce, later age in marriage, extended education
- MMRAE - some have no choice if widowed
- demograpic revolution, cultural change, 28% are
single, risen 18%, mostly elderly women
- Reconstituted families
- formed when lone parents re-marry
- over 40% - rapid increase - 54% step fathers - 12% step mothers
- over 40% - rapid increase - 54% step fathers - 12% step mothers
- A solution to a problem, two incomes =
essential, free to create another family
- DE'ATH & SLATER children are pulled in two
directions - mum or dad ?? or new arrivals
- formed when lone parents re-marry
- Lone parents
- 25% of all families, 90% headed by women
- DIVORCE - COHABITATION BREAKUP -
CHOICE - CHANGE IN ATTITUDES
- NEWRIGHT: thinkers claim lone parents are the source of social
problems - delinquency
- 25% of all families, 90% headed by women
- Fertility rates
- Women = having fewer children, 1960 (115) to 54.5 in 2001 lowest ever
- BIRTH CONTROL ACT 1967 - all women can have the right
- MCRAE: women outside marriage are more likely to have children in their 30s
- Women = having fewer children, 1960 (115) to 54.5 in 2001 lowest ever
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