SOC214H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mother 3, Structural Inequality, Pierre Trudeau
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Week 10: diverse conjugal relationships cohabiting, same-sex, and reconstituted. People get married later, fewer getting married therefore institution changing. Divorce rate has remained high, if you get married today the likelihood of separating is. Because the divorce rate is so high- step parents/families, blended families (acc. Elizabeth church) have become a kind of family. Elizabeth church- good at describing the uniqueness of these families and they are not quite nuclear. This has been an overriding theme of the course. the steepest family type is co-habiting couples (2 demographers- le bourdais and la pierre-adamcyck) Co-habiting do not consider self married but are conjugal have many features of families. Important because most common canadians start first intimate relationship, it is more common to common law instead of marriage in first relationship. Same-sex relationships- new family pattern (gillian dunne) interviewed 60 lesbian women. Survey- we hope we will live in an intimate relationship- how most think of lives but fewer are marrying.
