Matching Pairs M, C & DOnline version Match the sociologist to what they say! by Olivia Gardner-Stanbridge 1 Barlow and Duncan 2 Berthoud 3 Epstein 4 Hart 5 Murphy 6 Rector 7 Beaujouan and Ni Bhrolchain 8 Beck & Beck-Gernstein 9 Sarah Corse et al. 10 Sue Sharpe 11 Patricia Morgan Cohabitation is simply delaying marriage and is not the cause for the decline. There may be a correlation between unmarried parents and children doing worse in school. Working-class men and women were less likely to marry. Married men were more likely to be employed than cohabiting couples and earning 10-20% more. Many people want a lavish wedding but are unable to afford it so would rather cohabit. arranged marriages tend to grow more stable over time while love marriages are more likely to deteriorate. ¾ of Bangladeshi and Pakistani women married by the time they were 25. Divorce is a reaction that many wives feel from having to do the ‘triple shift’. Rising divorce rates are due to growing individualisation. 1970 -> marriage, husband, children. 1990 -> careers, being able to support themselves. Social policies such as the Child Support Agency encourages lone-parenthood which damages marriage.
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