CPSY 428 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Sole Custody, Joint Custody
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Today, americans ask a great deal more of marriage. Today, the median duration of marriage until divorce is approx. Crude divorce rate: ratio of divorces to 1,000 persons within the population. Divorce rate has decreased, reasoning due to increased levels of education, increasing income and communication skills and a related trend of couples delaying marriage until they are older and more established economically and emotionally. Serial marriages: americans tend to marry, divorce, and remarry. This method has the major drawback of separating the children from each other: the court may award custody to someone other than the parents.
