Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes -Voluntary Childlessness, Job Satisfaction, Married People

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Marriage is the legally and socially sanctioned union of sexually intimate adults. Social trends that are shaking up the traditional role of marriage: Cohabitation is living together in a sexually intimate relationship without the legal bonds of marriage: reduced premium on permanence. Roughly 50% of marriages ultimately end in separation or divorce: transitions in gender roles. Role expectations for husbands and wives are becoming more varied, more flexible, and more ambiguous. Increased voluntary childlessness: decline of the traditional nuclear family. Traditional values have eroded as people have increasingly embraced more individualistic values. Over 90% of americans will marry at least once. Up to 80% of world cultures practice arranged marriage: common in more collectivist cultures. Monogamy is the practice of having only one spouse at a time. Polygamy having more than one spouse at a time: common ways of dealing with the pain include accepting that this way of life is.