SOC244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Premarital Sex, Social Integration, Zoophilia
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In early canada, laws for divorce were strict. The church dominated social life and forbade divorce (traditional families and social norms that influenced families to not have divorces) Immediately after world war 2, the divorce rate jumped. The 1960s and 1980s saw changes to divorce laws. The peak year for divorce corresponded to the no fault divorce laws. The divorce rate in canada is much lower than divorce rate in america. The divorce rate is declining over time, but divorces still occur. If an individual has no emotion/feelings, then they will have an easier divorce. Legislation is always changing and so laws on divorce or bound to change. There was a peak in divorce rates in 1987 known as peak year(96,200) In 1921, there was a small number of divorces, then they raised after ww2. Statscan stopped collecting data on marriages and divorces since 2002 because marriage can be elusive; includes cohabiting.
