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