BIOC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Deinstitutionalisation, Church Attendance, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill
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Family: groups of people related by birth, affinity or cohabitation. Change in the family: de-institutionalization of marriage (andrew cherlin, our understanding of the norms and rules surrounding marriage has changed. Now we are more likely to see our partners as equal unlike before. People are less pressured to get married: as a result- people are increasingly questioning the role of marriage in their lives and society as a whole leads to lots of changes in the family. Major changes in the family: decrease in marriage rates. Cohabitation is three times higher in quebec than other places in canada because of common law and the religiosity and church attendance is very low: changing norms around spousal roles, women in the workforce, more equal relations. Increase in non-marital childbearing along with more childless couples: rising divorce rates, rising between 1970 and 1900 but now it is stable, rising diversity in family forms. Increased lone parent families: rise in same-sex marriages.
