SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Alimony, Prentice Hall, Second Story Press

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3660
• Professor: Amber Gazso

Document Summary

* 19th century: marriage was an indissoluble contract governed by english law. * 1968 divorce act: no fault divorce laws were introduced in the 60s and 70s in canada and some areas of the u. s. * in 1986, canada implemented the divorce act which considered marital breakdown as grounds for divorce. * divorce redefines ex-partners" obligations to one another and/or children. * common-law relationship over at time of separation. * more than 1/3 of marriages end in divorce. * the likelihood of divorce increases in the second-fourth years of marriage. * micro level explanations, top five reasons for divorce (bibby 2004) * abuse physical and emotional mostly the wife. * alcohol and drugs addiction (first or secondhand) transforms lives, ripple effect onto relations and families. * infidelity- sometimes tolerated for the sick of children. * meso demographic explanations correlated with higher divorce (age of marriage,