SOCI 2700H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conflict Resolution, Voluntary Childlessness, Normative Social Influence
5 Apr 2016
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Religious reasons, emoional security, companionship, to enable. Legiimate" or religiously sancioned parenthood, intense physical atracion, economic security, family pressure. Escape parental home, rebel against parental control, rebound from previous relaionships, to be rescued from an unsaisfying life. Conjugal status: largest group- married couples 47. 9, never legally married couples 27. 6, 16. 5% of same-sex couples were married (of 45,300 couples) Marital idenity; conirm our own idenity within the couple, idenity as a couple, establish how you will present yourself. Marital boundaries; rules of who can go where and how long, how to ight and where to ight. Household management: finances, division of labour within the household, divided by talent, ability, experise, divided by power. Managing the emoional climate: conlict resoluion, sexual scripts, providing support. Several terms have been used in literature: happiness, marital adjustment, marital saisfacion, and marital quality. Even childfree couples experience this u although the decrease isn"t as drasic.
