Marital Breakdown
Marital Breakdown
In this assignment I am be going to talk about the different forms of marital breakdown. I am also going to analyse the reasons and trends of marital breakdown and divorce.
Marital Rates
Since 1981 the number of marriages conducted every year has fallen by a third. Marriages were at the highest rates between 1932 and 1946 . in 1981 marriage rates were in the UK was at 7.1 but by 2001 it was down to 5.1 per 1000 of the population per year. Cohabitation is on the increase whilst marriage rates are declining. Statistics show that marriage rates have declined due to different factors which I am going to discuss. The number of couples getting married has been steadily declining since the 1970s. Over the century's women have become more career minded and putting marriage on hold while they continue with there career and since 1975 the sex discrimination act was put in place and therefore there was a rise in women choosing careers over marriage as before in 1930's it was the man in the household that worked and the women stayed home looking after the home and children. Another reason is people find that living together is a big commitment and that people are not getting pressured into marriage after knowing they are a couple. Back from the 1930's it would be frowned upon and bring shame to the family to have a cohabiting couple in the family. Nowadays marriage is not seen as something so serious people would rather live together unmarried with there children as most people surveyed say that marriage is just seen as a piece of paper.
Cohabitation
Cohabitation is another way of being together as a family without marriage. Between 1971 and 2001 the proportion of 18-49 year olds cohabiting has increased from 11 per cent to 32 per cent so therefore there is definitely an increase in cohabiting couples. In the mid-1960s, only five per cent of single women lived with a man before getting married. By the 1990s, about 70 per cent did so. In this
In this assignment I am be going to talk about the different forms of marital breakdown. I am also going to analyse the reasons and trends of marital breakdown and divorce.
Marital Rates
Since 1981 the number of marriages conducted every year has fallen by a third. Marriages were at the highest rates between 1932 and 1946 . in 1981 marriage rates were in the UK was at 7.1 but by 2001 it was down to 5.1 per 1000 of the population per year. Cohabitation is on the increase whilst marriage rates are declining. Statistics show that marriage rates have declined due to different factors which I am going to discuss. The number of couples getting married has been steadily declining since the 1970s. Over the century's women have become more career minded and putting marriage on hold while they continue with there career and since 1975 the sex discrimination act was put in place and therefore there was a rise in women choosing careers over marriage as before in 1930's it was the man in the household that worked and the women stayed home looking after the home and children. Another reason is people find that living together is a big commitment and that people are not getting pressured into marriage after knowing they are a couple. Back from the 1930's it would be frowned upon and bring shame to the family to have a cohabiting couple in the family. Nowadays marriage is not seen as something so serious people would rather live together unmarried with there children as most people surveyed say that marriage is just seen as a piece of paper.
Cohabitation
Cohabitation is another way of being together as a family without marriage. Between 1971 and 2001 the proportion of 18-49 year olds cohabiting has increased from 11 per cent to 32 per cent so therefore there is definitely an increase in cohabiting couples. In the mid-1960s, only five per cent of single women lived with a man before getting married. By the 1990s, about 70 per cent did so. In this