SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Sanctification, Zoophilia, Consanguinity
Document Summary
Gendered styles of loving rooted in gendered division of labour. Dominant familial ideologies shape social policy and people"s loves. Sanctification of cultural ideas about "normal family " in policy. What divorce laws tell us about marriage: family not just a haven in a heartless land. Early divorce laws: grounds for divorce( 1800s to 1925): Wife had to prove: adultery and either incest, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, rope of another woman, or desertion without due cause. 1968: new ground for divorce- "marriage breakdown" (3-5 years) Men expected to support children but enforcement up to custodial parent. Alimony for life or joins wife remarriage, except if wife was adulterous or deserted the family. 1985: "no fault" divorce marriage breakdown as separation for one year ( divorce without husbands consent) Spousal support replaces life long alimony : clean break philsophy. 1990s: 6% of women received spousal support ( only 16 % requested it)