Lesson objective

Lesson objective • The aim of this lesson is to use words and pictures to help you understand how attitudes towards marriage and family life have changed in the UK and why this is.

Lesson outcomes • ALL will be able to describe how marriage and family life has changed in the UK and identify five different types of family. • MOST will be able to categorise reasons why marriage and divorce has changed in the UK • SOME will be able to evaluate whether these changes are a good thing or a bad thing for society.

Starter • There are some new key words in this lesson. You have the definitions on your key words sheet but how many can you guess correctly without looking?

Marriage A – When two people get married for life B – When a man and a woman are legally joined together for life C – When two people are legally joined together The correct answer is .... B

Cohabitation A – Two people having equally bad habits B – Married people living together without having children C- Living together without having children The correct answer is .... C

Divorce A – The legal ending of a marriage B – When two married people agree to separate C – Breaking the law by committing adultery The answer is .... A

Civil partnership A – Two friends becoming partners in business B – Living together without being married C – A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same rights as a husband and wife The answer is .... C

How have things changed? • Things have changed in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Which have gone down and which have gone up? Couples getting married Couples living together Couples getting divorced

How have things changed? • Divide your page into two columns; 1950s and 2000s. • Read the statements on the first side of the sheet. • Write the statement into the column you think it belongs in. 1950’s 2000’s

1950’s • Most young people would not have sex until they were married. • Homosexuality was against the law. • Most people would be married • by the age of 25. • Most people would be married • in a church. • People would have just one or • two sexual partners in a • lifetime. • Most households would be a nuclear family.

2000’s • Average age for marrying has increased (31.8 for men and 29.7 for women). • Most people have sex • before they get married. • More children raised by cohabiting families (11% of all families) • Only 34% of marriages took place in a church. • More single-parent + reconstituted families as more couples divorce. • Homosexuality made legal in 1967 and Civil Partnerships 2004.

Why? • There are reasons why these changes have come about. • Working in pairs, look at the reasons for the changes and try to work out why the reason has brought about the change.

The answers – copy down any you didn’t get Contraception made it safer to have sex without becoming pregnant. More extended families as working mums use grandparents to look after children Less people following church teaching on sex and living together Celebrity couples make divorce, cohabitation + homosexuality appear more acceptable now Media shows cohabiting couples & sex outside marriage as normal Divorce & single parent families more acceptable now Divorce is more acceptable, cheaper and women have equal rights and pay to men so don’t have to stay married. Homosexuality made legal and homophobia illegal

Review • Use the work we have done so far today to complete the first part of Q3 on p25 of your revision workbook. • You need to make TWO points in your answer.

What else has changed? • The makeup of families these days have changed as well. Today there are several different types of family. • Use the picture clues and possible answers to work out the different types of family and answer on your whiteboards.

What type of family is this? • Nuclear family? • Extended family? • Single parent family? • Same sex family? • Re-constituted family?

Review • Now complete the second part of Q3 on p25 of your revision workbook. • You need to make TWO points in your answer.

Over to you…. • Do you think it is a bad thing that there are less people getting married? • Think – Pair – Share and try to come up with TWO reasons for your answer.

Plenary • Complete the sheet by deciding whether each argument is FOR couples living together or AGAINST couples living together. • Then use the coloured pencil to shade in the boxes of any arguments that are religious. • Add a key so that you know why you have shaded the boxes you have 

Lesson objective