FCST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Habituation, Gender Role

• School: MSU
• Department: Family and Child Studies
• Course: FCST 100
• Professor: Van Eeden- Moorefield

Document Summary

Legal ending of a valid marriage contract. Rate is steady with a very slight decrease. They believe that about half of marriages end in divorce. No fault divorce laws - not much support for this. Only one person has to file for divorce. Gender role ideologies - not much support. Increased economic independence of women - associated with divorce. Family needs now met outside of the family. Mobility and anonymity lead to less influence of other"s expectations to. You"re not the same person that i married. Need for a balance of realism and creativity - habituation. Employment or higher education of the wife. If parents got divorced, more likely for child to get divorced. Higher divorce rate for whites (population) but more probable for blacks. Consequences of divorce for adults and children. More likely to use drugs, tobacco and alcohol.