PSYC 319 Midterm: PSYC 319 full course lecture notes part II (46 pages) - from after midterm to final
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38% of canadian marriages end in divorce: children spend on average 5 years in single-parent home before remarriage or cohabitation. 75% of divorced parents eventually remarry; second marriages are less stable and divorce rate is even higher: complexity of custody arrangements (varies dramatically) Increase in single-parent families: about 25% of canadian children are in single-parent households, different patterns across ethnic groups (eg. almost half of african-american children live in single-parent families crisis) Increase in common-law families: decrease in number of formal marriages, same-sex marriages (2003) Traditional families relatively rare (<20%: eg. father working and mother homemaker, decline in canadian family size, average = 1. 8 children, <1% of families have 5 or more children. Increase in malaise scores by 20: moderate, long-term negative impact, nontrivial. 8 stages of psychosocial development: stage 5: identity vs. role confusion, emerges during late adolescence, due to increased cognitive capacity, undertaking of new roles, questioning of who one is.
