SOCL 2505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: New Youth, Wage Labour, Premarital Sex
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Transition from farming to wage labor rise of commercial capitalism. Drop in birthrate, rise in divorce rates (women were gaining independence, and less likely to stay in a bad marriage) New youth culture in the 1920s the jazz age, flappers, young people partying, doing what they want. Rise in the marriage rate (funny enough, marriage rates often rise at the same time as divorce rates) Prestige of father undermined; men were rapidly losing work, and were no longer the. Breadwinners, no longer the support of the family; men, at times, left their families. Divorce rates fell, for multiple reasons: divorces are expensive: it makes more sense to stay together and help fend for each other, regardless of relationship quality; struggle may fortify some marriages where it would break others. 1 in 5 women of this generation never had a child (the previous generation"s women: 1 in 10 women never had a child)
