SOC 411 Study Guide - Final Guide: Infertility, Incest, Opportunity Cost
Document Summary
In part because of legal, technological, and financial obstacles, gl parents are unusually committed to parenting: fatherhood, male provider ideal: the father as an economic provider and authority figure for his children, dominant ideal until the 1960s. Chapter 10: marital dissolution: the end of a marriage through permanent separation or divorce. The divorce revolution: 1960-1980, marriage considered voluntary contract and divorce can happen for any reason, generation with highest divorce rate on record is the baby boomers. 1. 8: divorce is least common among those with college or advanced degrees, blacks and american indians have the higher rates of divorce. Those who have been married three or more times are more likely to divorce. The probability of divorce is highest in the first four years of marriage. Economic status: after a divorce, women"s income, on average, decreases. The likelihood of women and children to live in poverty is called the the feminization of poverty. : divorce stressors for children:
