Families

• power - the ability to exercise control over one's life and/or the lives of others
• The divorce reform act 1969 -

  • enabled couples to get a divorce without having to blame one of the partners
  • must prove that relationship has undergone Irretrievable Breakdown
• Irretrievable Breakdown -

  • committing adultery
  • unreasonable behaviour
  • desertion
  • been separate for over 2 years
• Same sex couples act 2013 -

  • enabled homosexual couples to get married with civil partnership laws
• Polyandry is when a woman has more than one husband
• Polygamy is when a man has more than one wife
• Serial monogamy is when someone has married multiple different people, but at different times
• Monogamy is the practice of having only one partner at a time
• kinship is a family relationship
• cohabitation is when partners live together but are not married
• secularisation is the decline in religion