Goodbye Marriage Hello Alternative Family Arrangements
January 23, 2008
Britain has become a significantly more tolerant nation over the last 20 years, with increasingly liberal views on marriage, relationships and same-sex partnerships, according to research showing that the heterosexual married couple is no longer at the centre of UK life.
The British Social Attitudes report, conducted annually since 1983, reveals both dramatic social change around family life and a widespread acceptance that traditional structures and life patterns are being eroded.
However, it also shows that some traditional norms endure: adulterous sex is still as strongly condemned as it was two decades ago - 85% say it is always or mostly wrong - and people are more wary of alternative family arrangements where children are involved.
The latest report, based on more than 3,000 interviews with a random, representative sample of people in 2006, offers a picture of a fast-changing landscape of relationships and living arrangements, including partners who do not live together, unmarried, long-term cohabitees, “reconstituted families” made up of previously divorced parents and their stepchildren, and a rise in solo living.
The Victorian notion of marriage as the “socially accepted and religiously sanctified means of having sex” has vanished, says the study: 70% of people think there is nothing wrong with sex before marriage, compared with fewer than half (48%) in 1984. Cohabitation and marriage have become effective equivalents in the minds of most: two-thirds of people believe there is little difference between being married and living together, and only just over one in four (28%) think married couples make better parents than unmarried ones.
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Marriage is a sanctified institution once one is religious and it should be noted that those who are not religios don’t look at it in that way and that is the source of the problem.