PSYC 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Complications Of Pregnancy, Child Custody, Blue-Collar Worker

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74% married at least once by age 55. Effect of marriage on mortality 9-15% reduction. May be that healthier people get married, people who don"t get along with others don"t end up getting married. Rates of marriage by race/ethnicity asians = 62%; blacks=34% More young women than men are married, opposite is true for older adults. For younger women they marry older men. Cohabitation effect people who live together before marriage having a higher rate of divorce after marriage; people who don"t live together beforehand, have a less chance of divorcing. Variations in cohabitation rates by personal and social factors. People who choose to live together before marriage may be more spontaneous, less religious, may have had parents who divorced, less conforming. Rates of divorce really depend on your personality traits. Average length of first marriage is about 8 years. Rates in both countries have declined and leveled off since high point in 1980"s.

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