SOCL 2505 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intimate Relationship, Legal Custody, Child Custody
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These affairs mostly go undiscovered, but when they are discovered it"s mostly forgiven. Research shows second marriages are more sexually pleasing than. Economics- during economic prosperity, we see divorce rate increase & opposite during economic depression. Rise in individualism - people pursuing own personal happiness. Divorce was difficult to attain, took an act of parliament. Annulment for catholics- only granted by church officials and ruled that marriage was never properly formed, divorce forbidden (marriage never consecrated, or too closely related to spouse). Protestant allows divorce in cases of adultery or desertion, sometimes violence of husband; grounds of divorce mainly included wife"s adultery, not husband"s (concerns over who would get property) Women could bear children, and add resources to maintain farm. Men get custody of children after divorce to retain labor: divorce tolerance. Grounds for divorce expanded and available to women were. Socio- historical context shifts from economic partnership to emotional partnership.
