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Mind Map by amyhorsman, updated more than 1 year ago
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Divorce
- Increase in divorce rates
- In the late 1960's, divorce
rates started to increase
- Why the following might lead
to an increase in divorce rates?
- Changes
in law
- Makes it more
legally accepted
- Makes it more
legally accepted
- Wider
availability of
contraception
- Makes it more acceptable to have sex outside of marriage
- Makes it more acceptable to have sex outside of marriage
- Reduced
functions of
the family
- They feel because
divorce is more accepted
it is the best solution
- They feel because
divorce is more accepted
it is the best solution
- Increased life expectancy
- Too much commitment for such a long time
- Allows more time for
things to go wrong
- Too much commitment for such a long time
- Welfare state
- More people feel they'd find a
way to cope outside of marriage
- More support
- More people feel they'd find a
way to cope outside of marriage
- Secularization
- Less religious views mean
there isn't any need to follow
the religious traditions
- Less religious views mean
there isn't any need to follow
the religious traditions
- Changing roles
and attitudes
of women
- Women take control
if they are not happy
- More financially dependant
- Women take control
if they are not happy
- Privatized
nuclear family
- Limited advice/
sanctuary
- Limited advice/
sanctuary
- Changing social attitudes
and reduced social stigma
- Changes
in law
- Reasons for the divorce
increase:
- More socially
acceptable
- More widely available
- Women now have
a say in divorce
- Secularization
- Cheaper
- Change
in laws
- More socially
acceptable
- In the late 1960's, divorce
rates started to increase
- Why divorce rates have
recently started to decline
- Taking longer to
get married
- Expense
- Increased
internal
support
- Cohabitation
- Educated-
less younger
people getting
married
- Feel more secure
- More equality
between men
and womer
- Less financial stress to worry about
- Taking longer to
get married
- Definitions
- Divorce:
- The legal termination of a marriage
- The legal termination of a marriage
- Seperation:
- The legal couple
end their
marriage, move
to seperate
residences BUT
remain legally
married
- Some couples may obtain seperation orders
- The legal couple
end their
marriage, move
to seperate
residences BUT
remain legally
married
- Empty shell marriages:
- The couple live together but
marriage exists in name only
- The couple live together but
marriage exists in name only
- Divorce:
- Society's view on divorce
- New right:
- Patricia Morgan 1999-
'Large numbers of
fatherless youths
represents a high risk
factor for crime'
- Undermines the traditional nuclear family.
Creates an underclass of welfare dependent
female lone parents and leaves boys without
the adult male role model they need.
- Patricia Morgan 1999-
'Large numbers of
fatherless youths
represents a high risk
factor for crime'
- Feminism:
- High divorce rates are desirable - indicate a step
towards equality. Women who have freedom to
choose. Alternatives form of a family in which
women are free from male domination.
- High divorce rates are desirable - indicate a step
towards equality. Women who have freedom to
choose. Alternatives form of a family in which
women are free from male domination.
- Marxism:
- Rodgers and Pryor
1998- 'Children of
divorces or seperated
parents have a higher
probability of
experiencing a range
of problems such as
poverty, poor
housing, teenage
pregnancy and
educational
underachievement.'
- Mavis Hetherington 2002- '3 of 4 children experience long term
damage from divorce. 25% have serious emotional or social problems
compared with 10% from families who don't experience divorce.'
- Rodgers and Pryor
1998- 'Children of
divorces or seperated
parents have a higher
probability of
experiencing a range
of problems such as
poverty, poor
housing, teenage
pregnancy and
educational
underachievement.'
- New right:
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