SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Stepfamily
Document Summary
Soc214 family patterns lecture 1 september 13th 2011. Introduction: trends and ongoing challenges in family life. 35% are married couples living with children less than 24 years old. 34% are married couples without children at home. 7% are cohabiting couples living with children less than 24 years old. 9% are cohabiting couples without children at home. 12% are lone parents living with children less than 24 years old. 3. 5% are lone parents with older children not living at home. 66% live with two married parents (though some are stepparents) Cohabitation: the expectation is that fewer than half of. Canadians will marry by age 50 (and only about 1/3 of. Lone parents: the probability of marriage ending in divorce is about 38%. It is estimated that about 20% of children will experience parents" separation by age 15. The sociological perspective: wright mills on the sociological imagination : The difference between personal troubles and public issues ; sociology is about the latter.
