1. Before we start: A quick check…
Are you wearing your lanyards?
Mobile phones away please

2. A refresher of the class rules
Mobiles phones need to be put away. No texting in lesson
Using phone in lesson will result in a stage 1 concern.
A refresher of the class rules

3. Last lesson Key words: write a definition
Post-familial
Beanpole family
Household
3 examples of family and household structure in modern Britain
Last lesson Key words: write a definition

4. Now we need to summarise why those changes have taken place.
Last lesson we looked at the changes that have occurred in the family from 1950s to present day.
Now we need to summarise why those changes have taken place.
Last Lesson

5. GCSE Sociology: Extended writing
Family Why have families changed since the 1950s?
What am I going to learn? To understand why family structures have changed since the 1950s
Objectives of the lesson are:
To examine the reasons for family change since the 1950s until present day
To consider key terms, norms, values, technological change, gender attitudes and secularisation

6. 4 key reasons to consider
Why have families changed since the 1950s
Changing values and norms
Technological change
Secularisation
Gender attitudes
4 key reasons to consider

7. Why have families changed?
Over the years people have developed different ideas about families
No need to marry before living together
Children outside of marriage
Same sex couples having children together
Men and women expect to be more equal
1) Changing values and norms
Why have families changed?

8. 2)Technological change
Until the 1960s couples generally only used contraception if the man was willing
The introduction of the pill changed this
Women had the freedom to choose whether to have children
Families became smaller
Medical improvements have meant people living into extreme old age
2)Technological change

9. In the 1970s the feminist movement had caused a change in attitudes.
Challenging traditional ideas about women staying at home and men were in charge of society
More women began to work and become more financially independent
Women could divorce if they were unhappy
3) Gender attitudes

10. Religion is less important in people’s lives than it once was
What impact might secularisation have had on society?
4) Secularisation

11. 4)Secularisation Religious ideas seen as less important
Christianity teaches that marriage is sacred and that divorce is a bad thing
Therefore, if people are less religious they are less likely to marry before having sex and also more likely to divorce
4)Secularisation

12. Changes in divorce and marriage rate
Changes in family
Changes in divorce and marriage rate

13. Check your understanding
Task

14. Increase in divorce rate
1950
In 1950 there were approximately 20,000 divorces
2000
By 2000 over 150,000 couples ended their marriage
Increase in divorce rate
Divorce rate is highest in people age 40 and over

15. Why has this happened?

16. The simple answer to this question is that it has become much easier to get divorced.

17. There are 3 main areas attributed to the rise in divorce rates
1) Legal reasons
2) Social & cultural changes
3) Secularisation
There are 3 main areas attributed to the rise in divorce rates

18. The law changed to make divorce easier in 1969 – Divorce Reform Act
‘No blame’ divorce
Further changes have made it easier still since that time
1) Legal changes

19. Legal changes to divorce
Prior to 1970s divorce was shameful
It was expensive and difficult to obtain
Legal changes to divorce

20. Do you think that the higher divorce rate of the modern era, means that people are less happy now?
We cannot know for sure, as people in the past may have been unhappy, but had to stay together
Many people stayed in ‘empty shell marriages’
High divorce rate

21. 2) Social and cultural changes
It is now seen as more acceptable, and sometimes as the best thing to do for the children.
Divorce no longer means shame and social disapproval.
2) Social and cultural changes

22. Decline in religious belief has meant that divorce is not seen as something morally wrong.
3) Secularisation

23. Slow decline in divorce rate
2000
In ,000 couples ended their marriage – this was a failure rate of 33%
Slow decline in divorce rate
Although divorce rates have increased, it has actually been in decline since 2003

24. Why has this happened?

25. Reasons for decline and slowing down of divorce rate
Changes to women’s lives (financially independent)
Because fewer people are getting married
Secularisation – marriage is less sacred
Reasons for decline and slowing down of divorce rate

26. A change has occurred: Serial monogamy
Marriage to more than one person but only one at a time

27. Question – research methods
Suggest one reason why it would be unethical to ask people about their experience of divorce?
Question – research methods

28. Exam practice
and check your understanding task

29. Extended writing
Explain reasons why divorce rates have changed over the years (10) and Discuss social reasons why there have been changes in divorce rates in Britain. (20 marks)

30. You will need to write about social reasons for divorce and explain them.
For example, if you write about the law, say that it has changed and then explain what impact the change has had on divorce rates. Write about 200 words
Extended writing

31. Reasons for family change - childhood
Reasons for family change - childhood
Childhood in the 1950s
Childhood now
Toxic childhood -