SOC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Baby Boomers
18 Jun 2016
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Divorce: the divorce rate has declined 30% since 1980s. Baby boomers getting older, decline in the proportion of people of marginable age: chance of divorce drops. First child born 7 months or later after marriage. Income > 50,000: 50% of marriages end in divorce. Divorce to marriage ration: there are divorces as marriages. Belief that marriage is a long term commitment. Like in-laws: nearly 5 million cohabitating couples, 1. 6 million include a child under 15 years of age (8% of all couples) Do not want to limit sexual intimacy to one partner. Do not want to become highly dependent on one person. Do not want any one person depending heavily on them. Since 1990, latina tfr in us has dropped from 3. 0 to 2. 4. Single parent households: it is 4 times more likely that a 1 parent family will be headed by a female than a male, single fathers quadrupled between 1980-2000.
