HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Personal Development

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS202
• Professor: Bahira Sherif Trask

Document Summary

Number of unmarried couples living together increased 72% between 1990 and 2010. Cohabiing couples have a rate of separaion that is 5 imes that of married couples. 25% of americans have moral issues with cohabitaion. Cohabitaion efects: increasing age, increasing number of non-married-divorced, widowed, or waiing to get married, more common before second marriage want the children to get to know second partner, new social values. Cohabitaion not long-term subsitute for marriage in the u. s. among whites: of cohabitaing couples break up or marry within 1. 5 years and 9 in 10 do so within 5 years. 63% of women who became pregnant married (opposite of european countries) Among african american"s cohabitaing relaionships last longer and lead less oten to marriage; cohabitaing households more likely to have kids involved. 2 major components of marriage boundaries: marital status (single, divorced, etc. , number of spouses. Social meaning of marriage places authority in community and kin groups.