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CHANGES IN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE WORLD WAR 2

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.

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CHANGES IN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE WORLD WAR 2

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  1. CHANGES IN FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE WORLD WAR 2 Presented by Fox Lee & Rodger Liu

  2. MAJOR FACTORS • non-marriage on the increase • formal marriage → stable cohabitation • number of marriage fallen • steady rate of divorce • lone parent family

  3. 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.

  4. Formal MarriageStable 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Lone Parent Family • form about 23 percent of all families with children in Britain • 1.7 million families with about 2.8 million children

  8. Family & Marriage Great changes • the drop in rates of marriage • the increasing rate of divorce • cohabitation • one-parent families • the single patrician

  9. Fear and resistance of marriage • The social conception towards marriage • The working pressure • The fear of divorce

  10. The social conception towards marriage • youth culture : • Freedom • Independence • self-help • enjoyment • Fulfill the desire of human nature • No marriage → cohabitation • other dating way

  11. Fear of divorce • Emotion • Money

  12. Reason for divorce the simplification to get divorced the higher expectation of marriage extra-marital affairs domestic violence

  13. 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

  14. Cause: • Marriage value • application of contraceptive • social welfare system • Possibility: • a trial marriage • get married • cohabitation =a family form cohabitation

  15. Distinction. • stick to their family • Cohabitation never replace marriage Compare with china Similarity Acceptance of cohabitation Increasing divorce rate

  16. Thank you !

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