SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sociological Perspectives, Dependency Ratio, Dementia
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12-1 what is a family: family- an intimate group consisting of two or more people who live together in a committed relationship, care for one another and any children, and share close emotional ties and functions. By social scientists and law: people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Domestic partnerships and civil union laws: can register for the privileges that married couples have if they cohabit but are not married. Families are changing: 12-2a divorce, divorce- the legal dissolution of a marriage, trends, about 46 percent of american marriages end in divorce. 12-2b singlehood and postponing marriage: trends, the number of single americans has greatly increased since. 1970, comprising 44% of those 18 and older. Those who have never married make up the larges and fastest growing segment of the single population: about 93% of americans will marry at least once during their lifetime.
