People are also expecting more from marriage, and women especially are choosing to live alone due to feminist views. One reason for the growth in single hood could be the change in the law for divorce. In 1969 the Divorce Reform Act allowed people to divorce easier, as it meant they could put in place a no fault act. This meant that people didn't feel forced to stay in a marriage that made them unhappy. Furthermore, this would lead to a lot of people expecting more from relationships after getting divorced, as they wouldn't want to fall victim to what cause their last marriage to end again.
New industries, naval, and army bases were being built during the home front. Women played a huge role in this because if they didn’t stay home and take over for the men, they wouldn’t have the money to raise their families. “Only one in nine of the 45,000 women who signed up were selected for duty overseas” (Suite101) so a large percentage of women stayed back home. The National Selective Service controlled the women and men. They would only make the decisions for them “who could join up and who could not, where they could work, and when they could change jobs.” (Thecanadianencyclopedia) It was a tough life, but it was the only way to support their husbands when their off to war.
The unequal distribution of domestic responsibilities has held women back for generations; it still today continues to hinder women’s progression in the work-place. It seems like everyone thinks mum will stay at home and do the dishes, her little boy will grow up to become a big, strong man but not her daughter, of course, she is far too busy washing her own children’s dishes. But it is not just women who suffer sexism, men do also. For example: Shelia’s Wheels sell cheaper car insurance to women only, and they say it's because statistics show women to be safer drivers. Would it would be fair for a bank to offer men better rates on loans if stats showed that men were better at paying back loans than women were, utterly ludicrous.
Reconstructed families are couple that beforehand may have been in a previous marriage or relationship. Children are brought into the family although having a different parent. These are on the rise according to statistics. This could be because of: the economy – the price of getting married again may be a too costly price – especially in today’s society where prices are rocketing, a longer life expectancy – people not wanting to be alone, also, some people may believe marriage should only be done once from a moral front. (Self, A Zealey, L 2007) National statistics shows that remarriages have risen from approximately 80,000 to
They questioned authority systems and began to ask to change in laws. The reason Baby Boomers are so influential is because they are a large population. They are such a large population because they didn’t go to war (like the past two generations did) and they faced fewer medical threats such as the influenza pandemic. Another reason why Baby boomers have the largest population is because married and single women
People are working to a much later age and putting off retirement. This change is being reflected in our volunteers in that we have many more young people wanting to volunteer because the older population is still working. One other major change that we are seeing in the theatre is the number of overweight and obese volunteers is also increasing. This coincides with what the nation is seeing. According to the Center for Disease Control website, ” There was a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States from 1990 through 2010.” (2014) One thing that we are finding to remain rather consistent at the theatre is the number of male and female volunteers.
At this time people wanted to spend their money instead of save it for hard times. Society’s hourly pay rate nearly double and tripled during this era. War factories transitioned from making war materials to making civilian supplies, which lead to the boost in our economy at the time. Today, effects of the Baby Boom have many factors that come into play that affect our economy. According to National Academy of Social Insurance “social security faces a financial challenge from the impending retirement of the largest generation in American history, the 76 million persons born in the “baby boom” years, from 1946 through 1964.
Save the turf’ this shows us how the Mundy sisters are trying to envelope the fact that they are not stable as in that society it was patriarchal and needed a man to run the household as Jack is unwell they are unable to rely on him so he is more of burden on them . We can get a sense of injustice within the sisters as they feel they are treated unwell by Kate. Kate who is the dominate sisters within the family she has taken on both roles of bread winner and the mother figure and leaving the sisters to be filling in the gap of the male roles. ‘Two unpaid servants’ Agnes who is voicing for not just herself but Rosie as well gives us the feeling that she is dominant with Rosie or even more of a mother figure to her . ‘Rose and I’ this gives us a feeling of partition between the sisters as Agnes and Rosie have created a unit, this gives the audience the image of love and desperation as the sisters are affected by their financial situation as well as their personal .
Secularisation means the decline of the importance / influence of religion in society. Due to science becoming more influential in a modern society, religion is no longer necessarily seen as such an important contributor. As marriage is a religious concept, it might also now be seen as somewhat less significant in society and many might not perceive it to be as valuable or important as it once was. Divorce could be the result of this as the decline of the value of marriage might lead people to believe it is not long term. A third reason for changes in the divorce rate is the changes in women’s expectations surrounding marriage.
Outline and explain the reasons for the increase in diversity of family types (20 marks) One reason for the increase in single parent families is the introduction of the divorce reform act 1969. The divorce reform act made it easier for people to get divorced and made it cheaper also. This increased single parent family's because people who were unhappy about marriage could leave and it was seen as socially acceptable, but now because of the rate of divorces has increased it is seen less of a taboo and more of a normal procedure people go through in life. Another change in family diversity is the decrease of patriarchal family's, where the male is dominant in the household. From 1950's living and working in the uk we see that a male follows a patriarchal role and goes out to work while the wife stays at home and cooks and cleans as well as dealing with childcare waiting for the father to come home to provide emotional support and comfort from the strains of working life.Now in the modern day we see changes in conjugal roles in the family and now both parents may usually work and share jobs within the household.Wilmot and Young suported conjugal roles and that at the time of writing in 1970 that housework and leisure time were both shared as opposed to 1950s nuclear families where jobs and chores may have only been done by the wife in the household.