Rector
Hart
Patricia Morgan
Barlow and Duncan
Beaujouan and Ni Bhrolchain
Sarah Corse et al.
Sue Sharpe
Beck & Beck-Gernstein
Murphy
Epstein
Berthoud
Divorce is a reaction that many wives feel from having to do the ‘triple shift’.
Married men were more likely to be employed than cohabiting couples and earning 10-20% more.
1970 -> marriage, husband, children. 1990 -> careers, being able to support themselves.
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.
Rising divorce rates are due to growing individualisation.
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.
Many people want a lavish wedding but are unable to afford it so would rather cohabit.
Working-class men and women were less likely to marry.
There may be a correlation between unmarried parents and children doing worse in school.