What is one of the three reasons that the New Right sociologist Patricia Morgan believes has created a decline in marriage
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Social policies have put people off marriage such as the Benefit System as it encourages single parenthood
Too expensive compared to the 1950s
Marriage reinforces and promotes the sharing of the same legal and social duties
People are more likely to cohabitate than get married
Question 2
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Postmodernists believe that focusing on 'life-course' and 'personal life' isn't as important as families
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True
False
Question 3
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[blank_start]Cultural[blank_end] Diversity refers to the impact of [blank_start]global migration[blank_end] on family structures and dynamics
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Cultural
global migration
Question 4
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Smart (2007) believes the term 'personal life' instead of 'family' because
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it sounds nicer
family life is personal life so subsequently they mean the same thing
the term 'family' is often associated with a 'normal' family type
it doesn't include other family types such as single-parent, reconstituted or extended family
Question 5
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Parental [blank_start]conflict[blank_end] is more important than parental separation. A study found that couple families [blank_start]experiencing high[blank_end] levels of conflict in contrast to [blank_start]one-parent families[blank_end] found that children in the former were more likely to have [blank_start]emotional or behavioural[blank_end] problems.
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conflict
one-parent families
emotional or behavioural
experiencing high
Question 6
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New right sociologists believe that lone-parent families are a 'broken' and 'fractured' family type.