SOC214H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Structural Inequality, Egalitarianism
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Week 10: diverse conjugal relationships cohabiting, same-sex, and reconstituted. Future generations will start to not marry. Step-parents, step- families have became a kind of family . Not so nuclear: common-law, or cohabiting, relationships, the most common first union: 53% of people born in the 1970s cohabited as their first relationship (by age 29), [c. le bourdais and e. lapierre-adamcyck] Numbers have started to come up in the last few decades. Cohabiting doesn t think of themselves as families. A special type of relationship with certain features of families. Same relationship families- new type of pattern e. g lesbian couples. Survey research has shown, vast majority of canadians, we hope that we will live in an intimate relationship. 1930s, people now will be in their 80 s. 2% of these people started their lives as cohabiting. 1960s, people now in their 50 s, 42% of them had their first relationship as a cohabiting relationship.
