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quick summary of marriage
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statistics of marriage
fewer people are marrying than ever before, lowest since 1920 |
people are marrying later |
more people remarrying |
50.6% over the age og 16 get married |
40% of marriages end in divorce |
the average length of marriages in the US is 7-8 years |
in 2012 one third of marriages were remarriages |
couples are now less likely to marry in a church in 1981 60% of marriages took places in a religious ceremony but now in 2012 it has dropped to 30% |
Key words
divorce |
the legal ending of a marriage by a court |
cohabit |
living with someone your in a relationship with but not married |
house wife |
where the woman main role is to care for the family and keep the house clean |
breadwinners |
the person who brings home the money to support their family financially (traditionally the male) |
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reasons for changing patterns of marriage
fewer people are marrying - due to the secularization, decline in stigma about getting married |
people marrying later - more people want to spend time in education |
re-marrying - increase in divorce = increase in re-marrying |
church wedding - couples less likely to marry in church - secularisation |
reasons for changing patterns of marriage
fewer people are marrying - due to the secularization, decline in stigma about getting married |
people marrying later - more people want to spend time in education |
re-marrying - increase in divorce = increase in re-marrying |
church wedding - couples less likely to marry in church - secularisation |
why do people marry
most people marry because of love and companionship |
90% of those who are married and 73% of those living with a partner say love was a major factor in their decision |
want to make a formal commitment, it made sense financially, wanted to test the relationship, it was convenient for them or they or their partner were pregnant |
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what effect marriage has on society
marriage enhances the ability to become a parent |
married people are more likely to give and receive support from their parents |
higher quality of parent and child relationship |
children with happy married parents tend to do better in school |
married households work, earn and save at higher rate than other households |
sociological arguments on marriage
feminists |
would see declining marriages as a good thing, because traditional marriages are patriarchal and oppress women |
new rights / functionalists |
marriage is used for primary socialisation, stable home |
post modernists |
the decline of marriage and increase in divorce reflects where individual choice is central to life |
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