Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Voluntary Childlessness, Married People, Interpersonal Attraction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

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Traditionally, it has also included: economic interdependence, common residence, sexual fidelity, shared responsibility for children. Marriage the legally and socially sanctioned union of intimate adults. (owever, the following social trends have challenged the (cid:498)traditional(cid:499) model of marriage: Increased acceptance of cohabitation living together in a sexually intimate relationship without the legal bonds of marriage. Increased acceptance of singlehood since the 1960s, the median age at which people marry has been increasing. The median age at which people in the united states marry for the first time has been creeping up for both males and females since the mid-1960s. Increased voluntary childlessness: this trend is a result of new career opportunities for women, the tendency to marry at a later age and changing attitudes, decline of the (cid:498)nuclear family(cid:499) Ideal family used to be: husband and wife married for the first time with 2+ kids.