PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Incest Taboo, Stepfamily

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

A marriage that takes place after a previous marriage has ended. Current divorce rate is increasing as are remarriages. Simple: all of the children are related to one parent. A family where the children are related to one parent but not the other. Until the end of wwii, remarriage usually followed death of spouse. Now it follows divorce: increased life expectancy, changes in divorce law in 1968 and 1985, encourage divorce, improved pensions, greater acceptance of common-law unions and single living. Fewer people who are divorced intend to remarry. More than 6 in 10 divorced canadians did not wish to marry . 2006: 26% of women and 37% of men entered into a conjugal relationship within 3 years of divorce. Within 20 years, 69% of women and 82% of men. Note: percentage of people who say they have an intent to marry is lower among people who have already been married.