EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Optimism, Psy, Agreeableness
Document Summary
Changing norm of male-female equality in marriage and increasingly high expectations for marriage shoul have produced marital relationships that are more fragile and intense than they were earlier in the 20th century. More adults remaining single longer, current 27% having never married. The increase in cohabitation and slight decline in percentage of divorced ppl who remarry contribute to decline in marriage rates in. Increasing number of children growing up in families where parents have cohabited but number married, far more likely to occur when mother has a low level of education. Women with lower levels of education more likely to give birth in cohabiting relationships. Very happy declined from 70"s to early 90"s, increased. Men consistently happier than women in marriages. around turn of century, but recently begun to decline again. Although poor communication was rated as a relatively severe problem regardless of household income, it was rated as more severe in high-income households.
