SOC303H1 Lecture 2: SOC303 Lecture 2
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Description of change: structure of families and households roles and relationships, demographic processes: marriage, childbearing, divorces . Percentage of women who will marry at least once is decreasing: decreasing more substantially in quebec than the roc. Nature of cohabitation is changing: avant-garde phenomenon: few, mostly with higher education, prelude to marriage: trial marriage, childless phase, alternative to marriage: becoming socially accepted, can include children, cohabitation and marriage indistinguishable: indifference to marriage. Cohabitation and parenthood: cohabitation has increased at a more drastic rate in quebec and marriage has gone down in a similar fashion. Does marriage provide magic dust: selection effect. Who marries and who cohabits is (cid:494)not random(cid:495) linked to union stability. People who marry may have certain characteristic that are. Personal characteristics (attitudes towards, communication in marriage, conflict resolution skills: treatment effect. Marriage may have an impact on the quality of the relationship. Changes the legal rules applicable to union in many.
