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• Same-sex families


  Families consisting of same-sex partners
• In 2019 there were 212,000 same-sex families in the UK, having increased by 40.0% since 2015
• Reasons for rise in same-sex families


  • Changes in Legislation
  • Changing Attitudes & Secularisation
• Changes in Legislation


  1. 1967 Sexual Offences Act partially legalised same-sex acts

  2. Civil Partnership Act 2004 gave same-sex partners legal recognition

  3. Marriage Act 2013 introduced civil marriage for same-sex couples
• Historically, couples have always chosen to live in same-sex relationships. However, due to these legal changes, people can openly participate in single-sex families in the UK, so do not need to hide their sexuality
• They can now enjoy having the same legal rights as heterosexual couples
• Historically, same-sex relationships are not new - it's new they're publicly acknowledged and don't need to be hidden
• Due to this increased public figures are now openly in same-sex relationships
• Changing Attitudes & Secularisation

  • Changes in social norms and values, particularly with regard to morality and sexuality over the past 50 years
  • Decline in stigma
  • Increased acceptance of same-sex relationships
  • LGBTQ movement and issues being embedded in education
  • Decline in traditional opposition of churches to 'alternative' lifestyles
• Some homosexuals create their families based on the idea of 'fictive kin', where friendship becomes a type of kinship network
• These 'chosen families' offer the same security and stability as heterosexual families
• The development of chosen families is partly due to the breakdown of the 'heteronorm' - the belief that intimate relationships should be based on heterosexuality
• In 1983, one in every two people took the most critical view possible, that same-sex sexual relationships were "always wrong"
• In 2018, 66% of the public think that lesbian and gay sexual relationships are 'not wrong at all'
• The decline in stigma is consequently due to secularisation
• Reasons for rise in same sex families 

  Changes in Legislation 

  • 1967 Sexual Offences Act partially legalised same-sex acts After much campaigning by the LGBT movement, the Civil Partnership Act was passed in 2004. 2013, Parliament passed Marriage Act which introduced civil marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales.
  • . due to these legal changes, people can openly participate in single- sex families in the UK, so do not need to hide their sexuality.,
• Reasons for rise in same sex families -Changing Attitudes & Secularisation

   

  • changes in social norms and values. Changing attitudes - led to an increased acceptance.Due to combined legislative change LGBTQ issues are embedded in the education curriculum, is less stigma and more social acceptance
  • some homosexuals create their families based on the idea of kinship .Weeks -theyre 'chosen families.
  • everyone against in 80s (aids)1/2 people thought was wrong , in 2018 survey found that 66% accept it
  • decline in stigma due to secularisation.Gibson -t