Transcript CHANGES IN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE WORLD WAR 2 Presented by

CHANGES IN FAMILY AND
MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE
WORLD WAR 2
Presented by
Fox Lee
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Rodger Liu
MAJOR FACTORS
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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
• 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.
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
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
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
Lone Parent Family
• form about 23 percent of all families with
children in Britain
• 1.7 million families with about 2.8 million
children
Family & Marriage
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Great changes
the drop in rates of
marriage
the increasing rate of
divorce
cohabitation
one-parent families
the single patrician
Fear and resistance of marriage
• The social conception towards marriage
• The working pressure
• The fear of divorce
The social conception towards
marriage
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youth culture :
Freedom
Independence
self-help
enjoyment
Fulfill the desire of human nature
No marriage → cohabitation
other dating way
Fear of divorce
Emotion
Money
Reason for divorce
the simplification to get divorced
the higher expectation of marriage
extra-marital affairs
domestic violence
The decrease of
the production rate of children
the application of contraceptive
 the rise of the married people’s edu
cation level
 changes in women's social positio
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cohabitation
Possibility:
Cause:
 a trial marriage
Marriage value
 get married
application of contraceptive
 cohabitation =a family form
 social welfare system
Compare with china
Similarity
Acceptance
of cohabitation
Increasing di
vorce rate
Distinction.
stick to their
family
Cohabitation
never replace
marriage
Thank you !