Marriage and Family

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This paper examines how marriage and family are one of the most important areas of sociology, how society is brought up in a family context and how marriage is a very pervasive social institution. It looks at how, in modern European society, more women are working outside the home and demanding an equal share of the decision-making power in the family. It talks about the changing state of marriage and the family in modern European society and also adds the dark side of it. The aim is to show the reader the rapidly change of family and marriage which has become a very serious social problem and has led European society to crisis.

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"Marriage has become increasingly dissociated from parenthood. This has
happened in three main ways: the number of childless couples has been
rising, children are increasingly born outside marriage and the rising rate
of divorce separate children's parents (Sociology, 1999:380). The rate of families with dependent children has increased since the beginning of the 1970s (Social Trends, 1996:43) (fig 2). In 1961, 2 per cent of the population lived in households consisting of a lone parent with dependent children, but by 1998 this had increased to 7 per cent."

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