SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Noncustodial Parent, Discrete Event Simulation
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter 24, fox mourning different dreams: gender and the companionate marriage . 1980s, american study based on interviews with 104 american men and women about their divorce. Her findings suggest that expectations of marriage are central in the accounts of divorce provided by participants: gender differences in expectations about marriage this helped to explain why their marriage ended. These participants embraced a contemporary ideology that marriage is based on a companionate relationship: women wanted communication, reciprocity in conversation, emotional intimacy, close friendship, something based on close communication. Allow us to see the more positive impact of divorce on children, namely in making children more independent. Doing separation is common experience for children of divorce: have to learn to be away from one parent. Apart from children becoming more emotionally resilient, smart et al suggests that children of divorce develop skills in managing difficult and conflict-ridden situations.
