Increasing divorce rates - different perspective's views

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New Right - Murray

  • Marriage and PNF are vital to social stability

    • Divorce undermines this and is therefore undesirable

  • Creates growing underlcass of welfare-dependent female lone parents who are a burden on the state

    • These female single parents leave boys without a male role model, resulting in poorer health and educational outcomes

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Feminism

  • Shows breaking free from PNF

    • Desirable

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PoMo and individualisation thesis

  • Shows individuals now have the freedom to end a relationship when it no longer meets thier needs

    • Desirable

  • Cause of greater family diversity

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Functionalism

  • Isn’t a threat to marriage as still high re-marriage rate

  • Result of high expectations

  • Neither desirable or undesirable

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Interactionist - Morgan (1996)

  • Meaning of divorce is specific to individuals

  • This means we can’t generalise

  • Neither desirable or undesirable

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Interactionist - Mitchell and Goody

  • Father leaving can be the best or worst day of a child’s life

  • Individual meaning

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PLP - Smart (2001)

  • Can cause financial difficulties and lack of child-parent contacts

  • Divorce has become normalised and families adapt to life after divorce

  • Not a major problem, just another transition amongst others in the life course