CFD 1450 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Heredity, Memory, Interaction
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History of divorce: established in a religious tradition then moved to a more secular tradition, people can marry in either a church or not in a church to develop their households. 4 elements of traditional divorce law: gender-division of roles and responsibilities, required grounds for divorce, has to be a reason for divorce, a logical reason, based on adversarial proceedings, financial terms were built on fault. No fault divorce: california was the first state to pass this, based on irreconcilable differences , changed each of the four basic elements of traditional divorce law. Crude divorce rate: how many people in the population at any age divorce in the last year, between 1920 and 1950 divorce nearly doubled, since 1990 there has been a steady decrease in divorce, still relatively high though. Reasons it has declined in the past 30 years.
