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TITLE: DATE: 20/04/18Life Course Diversity: Divorce

RECAP: What factors from last lesson might have led to changes in the stability and duration of marriage?

ALL: List relevant factors.

SOME: Offer a sentence explaining what might have happened.

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Objective Key WordsKnow

Understand

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Equality ‐ ExcellenceEmpathy – Courtesy – Resilience  ‐ 

Etiquette

TITLE: DATE:

To give reasons and evidence for your views (ext: to consider alternative opinions and views)

To spot patterns and explain what's happening

Is the family a positive or negative institution in modern British society?

The Big Question:

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What does the divorce rate look like in the UK?

DivorceDivorce Rate

How do different factors explain the UK's divorce rate?

To what extent is a high divorce rate negative for society?

IndependenceDependencyStigmaSecularisation

IndividualisationNormalisation

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Key Words

Divorce rateThe number of divorces per X married people per year (usually per 1,000)

The divorce rate in the UK might be high because...

The divorce rate in the UK might be high in contrast to other countries because...

Key word Definition

Apr 2808:14

What's the trend?How might we explain it?

Apr 2808:14

What's the trend?

How might we explain it?

AO2: Key Evidence

Since the 1960s there's been a massive increase in the divorce rate: doubled between 1961 & 1969, and again by 1972. Upward trend peaked in 1993 at 165000.

Since then we've seen some fall ‐ around 40% of all marriages will end in divorce at this rate.

The rate of marriage has also fallen considerably since the 1960s.

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Explanations for the increase in divorce rate:

Why has the divorce rate increased?

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Increased financial independence: Women are less dependent on their husbands therefore freer to end an unsatisfactory marriage. Allan and Crow: Marriage is less embedded within the economic system.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business29896411

Declining stigma and changing attitudes:Mitchell and Goody (1997) ‐ rapid decline in stigma around divorce; divorce as solution to marital problems has become normalised.

Explanations for the increased divorce rate

Secularisation ‐ the religious aspect of marriage isn't seen as as important as it once was.

Changes in the law: Divorce is now more equal, easier to get and cheaper (1923 and 1971 divorce acts)

Rising expectations of marriage ‐ people see 'perfect' marriage in the media and expect more (Allan and Crow 2001: now, if marriage isn't personally satisfying people feel justified in ending it)

Apr 2814:39

Explanations for the increase in divorce rate:

Apr 2814:45

Feminist Explanations:Married women today bear a dual burden : paid work AND perform the majority of domestic labour (housework and childcare). This has created a new source of conflict within families = higher divorce rate.

While there has been a lot of improvement in women's lives in the public sphere (rights, laws, politics, workplace, education) change is limited in the private sphere (home, relationships). Marriage remains patriarchal with men benefiting from their wives' triple shift.

Dual BurdenThe idea that women are expected to take on both paid work and domestic labour in the home.

Key word Definition

Triple ShiftThe idea that women must do three roles at once: paid work, domestic labour and the 'emotional work' in the family.

Key word Definition

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Arlie Hochschild (1997)For many women, home compares unfavorably with work. At work, women are valued. At home, men's resistance to housework makes marriage unstable. Both partners working leaves less time for the 'emotion work' needed to address problems that arise. Both factors = higher divorce rate.

Wendy Sigle‐Rushton (2007)Mothers who have a dual burden are more likely to divorce than non‐working mothers in traditional marriages. Where the husband is involved in housework, the divorce rate is lower.

AO3: Evaluation

Why else might working women divorce more?

Cooke and Gash (2010): No evidence that working women are more likely to divorce. Working is now the accepted norm for married women. Jessie Bernard (1976): More women are dissatisfied with patriarchal marriage and more confident about rejecting it (hence most divorces coming from women)

Feb 161:16 PM

Modernity and Individualization

Ulrich Beck (1992) and Anthony Giddens (1992) : Modern society leads to traditional norms losing hold. Individuals become free to pusue their own self‐interest ( individualisation thesis)

Relationships are more fragile, because people seek 'pure relationships' and 'confluent love'. Individualisation (due to modernity) naturally leads to more divorce.

As divorce rates increase, they become more normalised, therefore divorce rates continue to increase (cyclical process)

Is a rising divorce rate therefore inevitable?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29896411

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Do any of these reasons contradict each other?

AO3: EVALUATION:

Which explanation (if any) is the most convincing?

Do any of these reasons reinforce each other?

Nov 2007:09

The consequences of increased divorce rates

More remarriages (divorced men more likely to remarry)

More cohabiting relationships (34% of divorced men, 24% of D women)

Divorce has become a significant legal issue (and big business)

Increased emotional stress

Increase in lone‐parent families and non‐nuclear family units.

Drastic increase in the number of reconstituted families

Nov 3017:36

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/divorceratesmarriageons

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article52829/BritainhighestdivorcerateEU.html

TASK:Read the article on divorce in the UK.

Answer the questions in your book.

L6 divorce rates article.docx

Plenary

PLENARY

Objective Key Words

Know

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TITLE: DATE:

Outline three reasons for a rising divorce rate in the UK today [6 marks]

Life Course Diversity: Divorce

To give reasons and evidence for your views (ext: to consider alternative opinions and views)

To spot patterns and explain what's happening

What does the divorce rate look like in the UK?

DivorceDivorce Rate

How do different factors explain the UK's divorce rate?

To what extent is a high divorce rate negative for society?

IndependenceDependencyStigmaSecularisation

IndividualisationNormalisation

20/04/18

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/divorce-rates-marriage-onshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-52829/Britain-highest-divorce-rate-EU.html

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L6 divorce rates article.docx

Divorce rates data, 1858 to now: how has it changed?

The number of divorces in England and Wales have slightly increased- as shown by the latest figures out today from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing a total of 118,140 divorces in 2012 - an increase of 0.5% since 2011.

In its latest release, the ONS have also included a selection of facts about the 2012 divorce statistics which you can find below

• There were 13 divorces an hour in England and Wales in 2012• Women were granted 65% of all divorces• 9,703 men and 6,026 women aged over 60 got divorced• One in seven divorces were granted as a result of adultery• 719 (less than 1%) divorces were granted because of desertion• The average age at divorce was 45 for men and 42 for women• 9% of couples divorcing had both been divorced before• 48% of couples divorcing had at least one child aged under 16 living with the family• It is expected that 42% of marriages will end in divorce

In 2012, 10.8 people divorced per thousand married population, a decrease of 19% compared with 13.3 in 2002.

If you look at graphs of divorce where the line goes up there's an interesting - if small - trend: there are peaks in the early 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and the increase in 2010 before the slight drop with the 2011 rate. The common factor of those dates? Recession.

Britain has highest divorce rate in EU

Britain has the highest divorce rate in the European Union, a survey reveals today.

The number of divorces throughout the EU is on the increase, with an average of 1.8 divorces for every 1,000 people.

But in Britain and in Finland the rate is 2.8 divorces per 1,000, compared with just 0.6 per 1,000 in Luxembourg.

But while the divorce rate slightly increased during the 1990s, the rate of births outside marriage has risen sharply - more than one child in four was born outside marriage in the EU in 1999, compared with fewer than one in five in 1989.

The figures vary widely between member states - ranging from just 4% of births being outside marriage in Greece to 55% in Sweden. Britain is well above the 26% EU average, at 38.8%.

QUESTIONS

1) How many divorces were there in the UK in 2012?

2) Which gender get granted the most divorces?

3) How many divorces happen because a partner cheats?

4) What percentage of marriages are expected to end in divorce?

5) What is the common theme when divorce rates go up in the UK? Why do you think this may be?

6) In what area does Britain have the highest divorce rate?

7) What percentage of children in Britain are born outside of marriage?

STRETCH:

Why do you think Divorce rates are so high in the UK in comparison to other countries?

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