CFD 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common-Law Marriage, Voluntary Childlessness, Group Marriage
Document Summary
Issues about it are handled in a civil rather than a criminal court. Marriage as a social and legal union. Federal law confirmed marriage is to be between a man and a woman. All persons who occupy a housing unit regardless of relationship. Married couples and their biological or adopted children living alone. 2010: 22% of children live in nuclear families. Two or more generations of close family relatives who live in one home. 2008: 10% grandparents/other relatives and their relative children live in. Familism: several generations one home common the same home. Mother / father and children living alone. Now make up 14% of us families. 1972 was 2. 4 children per family unit. ~42% of people are part of a stepfamily. About (cid:1152) of married couples cohabited before marriage. ~ of women did before first marriage. ~4% of children live in these homes. Same sex, living together as a couple with adopted and/or biological.
