SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - E Number, Accordion, Stepfamily
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Soc214 lecture 1 introduction: different types of families, of families (in 2011), 67% are married couples (& about half of them are living with children less than 24 years old: a minority) some of them are step parents and some same sex couples, 16. 7% are cohabiting couples (with fewer than half living with children less than 24 years old) some are stepparents, and some same sex couples, 16. 3% are lone parents living with children less than 24 years old, of children 14 years and under (in 2011), 63. 6% live with two married parents (some of whom are step parents, as 12. 6% of all couple families with children are; a smaller number same sex parents, 16. 3% live with cohabiting parents (some step parents, a smaller number same sex parents, 19. 3% live with one parent, a new kind of family: accordion families (katherine newman): young adults are living in their parents" home longer than in previous decades.
