Relier Pairs M, C & DVersion en ligne Match the sociologist to what they say! par Olivia Gardner-Stanbridge 1 Epstein 2 Sarah Corse et al. 3 Beck & Beck-Gernstein 4 Rector 5 Beaujouan and Ni Bhrolchain 6 Patricia Morgan 7 Barlow and Duncan 8 Hart 9 Murphy 10 Sue Sharpe 11 Berthoud 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’. ¾ of Bangladeshi and Pakistani women married by the time they were 25. Many people want a lavish wedding but are unable to afford it so would rather cohabit. There may be a correlation between unmarried parents and children doing worse in school. 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. arranged marriages tend to grow more stable over time while love marriages are more likely to deteriorate. Rising divorce rates are due to growing individualisation. Cohabitation is simply delaying marriage and is not the cause for the decline.