PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: 6 Years, Casual Sex, John Gottman
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Chapter 10: coming apart the divorce experience. Divorce is most common deviation from traditional family life cycle. Divorce families add 2-3 phases to life cycle. Separation, perhaps remarriage, stabilization into new family pattern. Divorce not uniform and shouldn"t be oversimpli ed. In practice, divorce experience is quite diverse for couple and their families. Church dominated social life and forbade divorce. Come confederation, anyone living in a province without a divorce court could submit a private member"s bill to parliament. Divorce rate: measure that predict the proportion of couples that can be expected to divorce before 30th wedding anniversary, based on current patterns of divorce. Immediately after wwii, divorce rate jumped, resulting from . Freedom and nancial independence women experience in the workforce while men were at war. For next two decades, divorce rates were lower. Bill c-187 no fault principle **know this. If dines"t have to be adultery and desertion anymore. 1985 amendment reduce waiting time to one year.