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Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Divorce

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40% of first marriages in Canada end in divorce

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Historical Divorce trends

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Rare before 1900

- Key legal amendments in 1968 and 1985

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Divorce in 2008

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Average age at divorce: 42 for women and 45 for men

  • Average length of marriage 14.5 years
  • Risk of divorce highest at year 4 or 5
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Trends in Divorce

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  • Overall trend toward increased divorce
  • family bonds now are voluntary, emotional ties
  • Secularization and individualism
  • Women’s economic independence
  • Liberalized divorce laws (which reflect broader changes)
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Who is less likely to divorce?

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  • People married at older ages
  • University educated
  • (used to be) people who cohabited first (no longer true)
  • Religious people
  • No children before marriage
  • People whose parents didn’t divorce
  • Some specific ethnicities
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Patterns of Remarriage

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  • Most divorced Canadian men and women remarry (except in Quebec)
  • Multiple remarriages are rare
  • Remarriages are more likely than first marriages to end in divorce
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Remarriages and Divorce

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  • more accepting of divorce
  • More complex family structures
  • Fewer “scripts” to follow (incomplete institutionalization)
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Trends in Remarriage

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  • Historically prevalent among widows and widowers

* Remarriage is now more common and involves younger people

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Consequences of Divorce for Adults (Symbolic Interactionist Perspective)

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Family members must renegotiate relationships and meaning

  • Can be a positive experience
  • Can have negative effects on social-psychological well-being
  • Economic repercussions
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Single parent households

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16% of Canadian Children

81% of these children live with single mothers

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Consequences of Divorce for Children

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  • Assumptions of negative consequences
  • Children in single-parent families do face challenges
  • result from economic circumstances, lack of support
  • not a product of family structure in itself
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Consequences for children (Divorce) Depend on

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  1. Age of child (timing!)
  2. Living and parenting arrangements
  3. Level of parental conflict
  4. Socioeconomic resources
  5. Other social networks
    - Divorce is better than a conflictual marriage for children
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Murdock vs. Murdock (1968)

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  • Alberta ranchers
  • Ruling that wife had no claim on property acquired during marriage
  • led to revisions in matrimonial property laws
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Child Custody and Support

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Custody awarded based on the “best interests of the child”

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Legal Custody

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Long-term decisions about how child is raised

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Physical custody

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Responsibility for child on a daily basis

17
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Join Custody

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Legal custody is shared equally

  • Bi-nuclear family
  • 9% of divorced families
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Trends in child custody

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  • More fathers seeking sole or joint custody

- child support determined based on living arrangements

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Counter-transition

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Is a transition produced by the life changes of others

20
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Bi-nuclear family

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Is created when both the mother and the father act as parents to their children following divorce, although they maintain separate residences

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Crude divorce rate

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is calculated as the number of divorces in a given year divided by the mid-year population

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Joint custody

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Is defined as the legal right and responsibility of both parents to make decisions and care for their child(ren) following a divorce

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Legal separaration

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Occurs when married couples separate with the intention of obtaining a divorce

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Remarriage as an incomplete institution

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Refers to a lack of normative guidelines for solving problems and can result in disagreement, division, and conflict among family members

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Sleeper effect

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is manifested as a problem or a set of problems that emerge long after a stressful or traumatic event (such as divorce) is experienced

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