Changing Marriage Patterns

The number of marriages in the UK has ______________________ over the last few decades.

• increased

• decreased

• stayed the same

• rapidly increased

There are more remarriages per year than there are some first time marriages, couples getting married for the second or even third time, as people divorce then remarry again - this is known as ______________________.

• monogamy

• serial monogamy

• polyandry

• polygamy

Serial monogamist Ron Sheppard is the ‘ most times married’ man in Britain with ____ marriages.

• 10

• 6

• 7

• 8

The decline in religion is known as ______________________ means fewer people are getting married.

• atheism

• Christian low

• secularisation

• non believes

There are more remarriages now as divorce has increased. The main divorce acts were in which years?

• 1981 and 1991

• 1950 and 2000

• 1964 and 1989

• 1969 and 1984

More people are now living together and not getting married. This is called...

• cohabitation

• co living

• reconstituted family

• polygamy

According to the ONS there were nearly _____ million, opposite sex cohabiting couple in 2014

• 12

• 3

• 6

• 5

Cohabiting couples represents ___% of families.

• 12.4

• 13.4

• 15.4

• 16.4

Many couples are marrying at ____________________ that their parents or grandparents did.

• a later age

• an earlier age

• the same age

• the same place

The costs of a wedding is putting couples off getting married or delaying getting married. Research shows that the average cost of a wedding was £________________.

• 50,000

• 15,000

• 30,000

• 20,000