SOCI 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Voluntary Childlessness, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Stepfamily

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 247
• Professor: Elaine Weiner

Document Summary

Lecture 19 and 20 section v (family dissolution and reformation) divorce and remarriage: Once they were found guilty, they could be exiled from the colony, jailed, etc. Men would financially do better in a divorce, and women would take a financial loss: 20th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tu(cid:396)y i(cid:374)t(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:862)(cid:374)o fault(cid:863) di(cid:448)o(cid:396)(cid:272)e la(cid:449)s (cid:894)califo(cid:396)(cid:374)ia(cid:895) California was the first state, and over the next 25 years other states followed suit: no fault divorce somewhat took the adversarial element out of this divorce. Divorce rates have really fluctuated considerably: one has been there was a focus on the adversarial nature of the divorce, how to render divorce less adversarial. Focus on the implications of women, and the implications of divorce on children: 1980s we saw a rise of divorce in the us. Liberalization of family law had transpired this is why people saw divorces as increasing. In part, divorce had been increasing for decades.