Even though many marriages in history were arranged, the couples eventually fell in love. However, the perceived view of love throughout history by philosophers like Plato and Aristotle has not included the love of a man for a woman. Quite the contrary, since love sickness was often seen as a disease or even weakness. However, today our society has evolved to become a radical community where men are no longer the “bread-winners,” but instead “homemakers” and the readily available birth control mechanisms have lessened the needs for polygamy and
a) Outline and Explain reasons for the growth in singlehood in the contemporary UK. [15] Singlehood in the UK has grown over the years, for example, women born between 1946 and 1950, only 7% remained unmarried, however women born between 1961 and 1965, 28% of women remained unmarried, with a similar trend for men. The growth for singlehood could be for a number of different reasons. People are now taking advantage of the new divorce law, and the changing views on singlehood. People are also expecting more from marriage, and women especially are choosing to live alone due to feminist views.
Over the last 50 years or so, the patterns of marriage and divorce have changed significantly, and are still changing in today’s society. Due to many factors including: less stigma, changes in women’s positions, secularization and cohabitation. Nowadays, there is less pressure to marry and a lot more freedom for individuals to choose the type of relationship they want. It’s considered more important about the quality of a couples relationship, rather than the legal status. Secularisation is also involved in why there are changing patterns of marriage due to churches being in favour of marriage, but as their influence declines, people feel freer to choose not to marry – according to the 2001 Cenus, 3% of young people with no religion were married, compared to up to 17% of those with a religion.
Couples can share a life of dreams, excitement and happiness. Many believe that marriage put women in higher risk factors for abuse and violence. Marriage has become only a statement now because of the widespread social change. Many have stated that being marriage is not important any longer and choose to live together instead. But this is not the same as sharing an intimate and fulfilling life.
Another main reason is the simple fact people are marrying later for many reasons, more because of the change in attitudes towards education and religion (seclurisation). It doesn’t help that the countrys ecnomy is in decline and the price of weddings not only was expensive enough but they are also getting dearer to match the current cost of living. From 1838 until. Nearly a quarter of children lived with only one parent (25%) last year and nine out of ten of these households were headed by
One of these policies is the divorce act 1969; which has made it easier for couples to get divorced. Due to this, marriage has become less sacred which has made the family unit weaker. Couples may get a divorce instead of trying hard in the relationship to make it better. Another law affecting the family is the new deal 1998; which makes it easier for lone mothers to get back into paid work. This was introduced by the Labour party, who Lewis argues have taken on the idea of ‘social investment in children’ seriously and have realised family forms are changing.
These kinds of relationships are normally voluntary and formed for an individual’s happiness rather than for the happiness of a family. This therefore means that we may expect to find differences between these cultures, especially when it comes to romantic love. Levine Et Al had studied love as a basis for marriage in 11 countries. Participants were asked whether they were willing to marry somebody who had all the qualities they desired whom they did not love. The American respondents were reluctant to marry somebody who they did not love as only 14% said that they would agree to marry.
Same-gender marriage has become a hotly contested topic in the past few years, and while many people are beginning to see it as what it really is, an issue of equality and justice, there are still many people who are set against it for various reasons, although mostly religious ones. Same-gender couples should legally be allowed to get married because peoples’ religious biases have no place in the federal government, it will give them access to the many legal protections and privileges that heterosexual married couples get, and while any group of people is being denied their rights, society is being damaged. The United States is a federal state that was, more or less, literally founded on the basis of religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and denying people the right to marry because some people are using religion as an excuse for their ignorance is unconstitutional and wrong. Not only are conservative members of Congress using their power to stop bills that would allow same-gender couples to marry from being passed, but many religion-based groups (almost always Christian ones) will rally together and contribute money and time to do the same. One must realize that our country is a diverse place full of people who hold
She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken 'literally' because from the 50's there were changes in values that caused racism and sexism discrimination against women. Many of the existing social problems could have been avoided or ignored. Racial conflict was intense in many places, but many suburbs were exclusively white. The poverty rate was higher than today, but at least it was falling. Teenagers had more babies than they do now, but access to good jobs-even with only a high school education-enabled young men to marry their pregnant girlfriends.
There is more than one type, for example: lone parents; pensioners; stepfamilies; families with/without children. There are lots of different types of households like lone parent with dependent children, a couple with dependent children, couple with no children and people living alone. The lone-parent dependent children households have grown in recent years from 2% in 1961 to 7% in 2006. The New Right is worried about the increase of family diversity because it means there is an increase in breakdown of the traditional family. The families formed by cohabiting couples, families headed by lone parents or by gay or lesbian couples are at a second best.