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Why have families changed since 1950s?
K E Y T E R M S • Homosexuality – sexually attracted to people of the same sex • Secularisation – religion is less important in people’s lives than it was. • Domestic abuse – controlling or violent behaviour in the home. • Illegal – against the law.
Reasons for Family Change Success Criteria I can identify the following reasons for Family change. I can distinguish changes from 1950’s to the modern world.
1. Changing Norms & Values • In the past, women are expected to get married, to give up work and to stay at home. Today, they can even land higher positions than men. • Nowadays, people live together or have children before marriage.
2. Technological Change • Until 1960’s, women uses pill. As knowledge in medical technology grows, the families become smaller and smaller, women could have sex outside marriage, and more people live into extreme old age.
3. Secularisation • In Christian religion, marriage is sacred and divorce is a sin. But today, many people disregard religious ideas including marriage and accepted divorce.
4. Gender attitude • Until 1970s, women became feminist and challenged traditional ideas. • They get jobs on their own; no longer rely on their husbands, chooses divorce, and doesn’t tolerate domestic abuse.
Stretch & Challenge Create a mind map to explain reasons for family change. Add ideas of your own. Use images and pictures to help you understand the keypoints.
Over to you What do you think a typical family in Britain will be like in 50 years’ time? What is the future of family life?
Check your Understanding Match the beginning and end of these sentences There are many reasons for changes that have – One reason for family change is secularisation – In the 1970s, many feminists began to challenge – As contraception became easier for women to use, so – One norm that has changed in British Society is the idea that people should not- In modern society, men - • which is where organised is less important in people lives. • have sexual relationship before marriage. • and women expect to be more equal in families. • the idea that men should be in control of society. • taken place in family structure. • family size began to fall.
Exam Practice As social norms and values have changed over time, so have laws. Many laws affecting family life have changed over the past 60 years. For example, divorce is now much easier to arrange that it was in the 1950s. Another law that has changed family life is abortion law. Before 1967, if women wanted to end a pregnancy, they would have to break the law. Many women died from unsafe illegal abortions. Now, women can choose whether to continue with a pregnancy. Men who are not married have more rights over their children than they once did; however, they do not have the same rights as married fathers. Using the item, explain why laws governing family life have changed. (2) Describe one change to family law since the 1950s and explain how it has affected family structure. (2) With an example drawn from family life, explain the meaning of the term norm. (2) Fully explain the reason for one change that has taken place in family structure since 1950s. (4)
