demographic changes crib sheet knowledge

Giddens (marriage)

confluent love

Sharpe (marriage)

changing ambitions

Wilson (divorce)

church belief that people should stay together is irrelevant

Fletcher (divorce)

people expect more from marriage

Goode (divorce)

people accept divorce and cohabitation as a normal part of life rather than a sin against God

Mitchell and Goody (divorce)

since the 1960s, there has been a change in the stigma attached to divorce

Allan and Crowe (divorce)

an absence of feelings such as love and intrinsic satisfaction is justification for ending a relationship

Coast (cohabitation)

cohabitation normal for couples (75% of cohabiting couples say that they expect to marry each other)

Morgan (cohabitation)

people cohabit because they’re scared of divorce

Gibson (cohabitation)

changing morality means more tolerance of ‘alternative’ lifestyles

Chester (cohabitation)

cohabitation is part of the process of getting married

McKeown (life expectancy)

 improved nutrition accounts for up to half the reduction in death rate

Harper (life expectancy)

fall in death rate due to reduction in the number of people smoking

Hakim (fertility)

contraception is now allowing women to be carefree as a lifestyle choice

Durkheim (singlehood)

cult of the individual

Horton and Wallace (singlehood)

 being childfree leaves people better off & able to pursue personal interests

Park (singlehood)

women felt having children might restrict their lives & careers

Parsons (family diversity)

nuclear family is the ideal family type

Flour and Buchanana (family diversity)

marriage not economically necessary for women

The Rapoports **(family diversity)**

found family diversity in Britain