changes in family and marriage in britain since world war 2
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CHANGES IN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE WORLD WAR 2. Presented by Fox Lee & Rodger Liu. MAJOR FACTORS. non-marriage on the increase formal marriage → stable cohabitation number of marriage fallen steady rate of divorce lone parent family. Non-marriage on the Increase. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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CHANGES IN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE WORLD WAR 2
Presented byFox Lee
&Rodger Liu
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MAJOR FACTORS
• non-marriage on the increase• formal marriage → stable cohabitation• number of marriage fallen• steady rate of divorce• lone parent family
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Non-marriage on the Increase
• Of women born in the early 1960s, 28 percent remained unmarried at the age of thirty-two.
• Only 7 percent of women born in the early 1940s were still unmarried by that age.
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Formal Marriage
Stable Cohabitation• women under sixty cohabiting—from 13
percent in 1986 to 25 percent in 1998 and 1999
• By the early 1990s as many as 70 percent of women cohabited prior to marriage
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Number of Marriage Fallen
• first marriages 343,000 in 1971 →184,000 in 1999• average age 22 for women & 28 for men 28 for women & 30 for men
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Steady Rate of Divorce
• 145,000 divorces per year since the early 1980s, a rate of 12.9 per thousand married people
• The numbers of divorces involving children under sixteen
Peak of 176,000 in 1993 150,000 in 1999 • ¼ children under five years old
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Lone Parent Family
• form about 23 percent of all families with children in Britain
• 1.7 million families with about 2.8 million children
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Family & Marriage
Great changes the drop in rates of
marriage the increasing rate of
divorce cohabitation one-parent families the single patrician
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Fear and resistance of marriage
• The social conception towards marriage• The working pressure• The fear of divorce
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The social conception towards marriage
• youth culture :• Freedom• Independence• self-help• enjoyment • Fulfill the desire of human nature• No marriage → cohabitation• other dating way
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Fear of divorceEmotion
Money
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Reason for divorcethe simplification to get divorced the higher expectation of marriage extra-marital affairs
domestic violence
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The decrease of the production rate of children
the application of contraceptive the rise of the married people’s education level changes in women's social position
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cohabitation Possibility: a trial marriage
get married
cohabitation =a family form
Cause:Marriage value
application of contraceptive
social welfare system
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Compare with chinaSimilarity Acceptance of cohabitationIncreasing divorce rate
Distinction.
stick to their familyCohabitation never replace marriage
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