SMF101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Endogamy, Intestacy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies
• Course: SMF101
• Professor: Denise Whitehead

Document Summary

Less gendered: same gendered, matter of personal choice, have children before cohabitation/marriage. Our choices are influenced: by family circumstances, social and class background, gender, social pressures, cultural expectations, economy/education. Interracial couples 33% increase in less than 10 years. Cohabit vs. common law (definitions under ontario family law act) Cohabit means to live together in a conjugal, whether within or outside marriage. Two prominent trajectories: cohabitation as a stage in the marriage process, cohabitation as an alternative to marriage. 2011 census- 17% of living common law (same-sex couples included), and quebec has. It has the highest proportion of individuals living in common law in canada. Why do people move in together: people have higher expectations of who they want to marry and who they don"t want to live with. Their expectations always exceed about how they both are in the relationship. Babies are always use the relationship glue, they are not good when it needs to hold the relationship together.