SOCIOL 2QQ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Stigma, Child Custody, Interracial Adoption
4 Oct 2017
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Experience relationship dissolution or divorce (compared to earlier generations) Have children within context of a cohabiting relationship. Be a step-parent (compared to earlier generations) Be born to unmarried parents (higher in quebec) Lower socio-economic groups cohabit instead of marrying due to lack of nancial resources (us) More well educated than less educated marry. Family transitions continue through adulthood following divorce or widowhood as some individuals pursue later-life relationships. One change from earlier generations is the increase in divorce among older people. Rates of remarriage for divorced or widowed individuals decline with age, yet many senior. A signi cant recent change is that rates of remarriage or cohabitation following divorce are declining. Divorced canadians are taking longer to repartner and many are not repartnering, especially those with kids. Pre: remarried following loss of spouse for economic reasons; many women died during childbirth so men would remarry; blended families due to death. Today: blended families due to relationship breakdown.
