SOCI 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Extended Family, Multiple Sex Partners, Physical Abuse
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Permitted to be enacted on by husbands of influence; influence of church. Common grounds: adultery/ wait 7 years before remarriage (a justified reason) Divorce act of 1968 (reduced waiting period to 3 years) Divorce act in 1985 (reduced waiting period to 1) Selection effect: locations were getting a divorce is easier lead to woman having a more careful mate selection. Decreasing importance of family & women"s increased labour force participation. Complex family forms; cohabitation, premarital pregnancy, childbirth, age at marriage. Couples with high cost due to the presence of children or with relatively low alternatives to divorce because of age or status were less likely to divorce. Predictors: age at marriage, education, premarital births, religion and parental divorce. Dvfm (divorce variation and fluidity model) the process of divorce . Meso: age at marriage, parental divorce, religious factors etc. *bad ones end quickly; urban living increase risks; social integration. Strength: easy to calculate and isolation to one specific year.
