PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Stepfamily
2 May 2017
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A marriage that takes place after a previous marriage has ended. Current divorce rate is increasing as are remarriages. Stepfamily: a family where the children are related to one parent but not the other. A simple stepfamily is when only one of the members has a prior child. A complex or blended family is when both parents have children from previous marriages. increased life expectancy. Remarriage trends: until the end of wwii remarriage only occurred following the death of the spouse. 1: changes in divorce law (1968 and 1985) 3: greater acceptance of common law unions and single living improved pensions. Fewer people who are divorced intend to remarry. More than 6 in 10 divorced canadians don"t want to remarry. 2006: 26% of women and 37% of men entered into a conjugal relationship within three years of divorce. Within 20 years 69% of women and 82% of men have entered a conjugal relationship.
