SOC303H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic Freedom, Engagement, Putting-Out System
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Three overarching questions : how have families changed over time, demographic processes - transitions such as marriage, divorce, and childbearing, structure of families and households - relationships between family members and family roles. Example: families over time have become more diverse and are made up of people related biologically and not, becoming more complex and researchers look at the economic and time obligations this takes. Legal changes that equalized the relationship with marriage: choosing cohabitation after divorce as an alternative to remarrying, people stay (cid:272)oha(cid:271)iti(cid:374)g for a lo(cid:374)ger period of ti(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essarily get (cid:373)arried after (cid:862)alter(cid:374)ati(cid:448)e(cid:863) to (cid:373)arriage. In quebec cohabitation has become more stable (similar to marriage) compared to the rest of. Canada: type of parents union at birth for different cohorts, children born to parents who went directly into marriage were much more common in 1970 - 1984 than in 1997: there was an even more dramatic decrease of children born to direct marriage in quebec.
