SOC271 Final: Comprehensive Notes for Lecture 4
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Forming adult relationships (baby boom, post baby boom, what influences dating and courtship, how people end up in long term relationships?) Early marriage + no effective contraception (it was not legal until 1969) Goes down because of birth control, post secondary, great movement of women into the paid workforce, changes in gender roles, inflation. Post baby boom trends: marriage: getting less popular- Drop 1931, peak 1941, drop 1946, peak 1951, peak 1971, then drop until now. Happening later in life, it climbs up after the baby boom. Now it is in older than older in ages. There is a gap between ages of men and women. Lowest age in marriage corresponds to the highest birth rates. It was much more likely for a marriage to end in a death of a partner. 1968: trudeau"s reform of divorce law (divorce rates jumped)
