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