KU SOC 160 - Marriage and Divorce Single Parent

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Marriage and Divorce Single Parent 1) 50% of all marriages end in divorce 2) Question: Agreeing that marriage has not worked out for most people they know, by educationa) Least educated 53%b) Moderately educated 43%c) Highly educated 17%3) Marriage Gap- People with higher education are getting married and forming a gap4) Marriage as emerging dividea) Marital quality is declining for the less educated but not for the highly educated b) Divorce rates are up for less and moderately educated c) The moderately educated middle more likely than highly educated Americans to have children outside of marriage d) The children of highly educated parents are now more likely than in recent past to living with both parents 5) Marriage Gap a) Family lives of moderately educated beginning to look like those of leasti) Financial stressii) Partner conflict iii) Single parenting iv) Troubled children 6) Barriers to Ideal Nuclear Family (little bit of everything)a) Marriage models as reason for divorceb) Institutional modeli) Respect, duty, sacrifice ii) Gendered division of laboriii) Focus on familyiv) Stable, traditional c) Soul Mate Modeli) Personal growth, emotional intimacy and shared consumptionii) Intense emotional relationship iii) Ability of individuals to experience relationship, not a familyiv) Many lack requisite emotional and economic resources to go or stay married v) Disposal and romanticd) Never really was therei) Life expectancies(1) Average marriage in colonial times was 40 years(2) Half of all children living in the south in 1800s, had one parentii) Family formations often different (1) Servants, nannies, maidsiii) Divorce in different contexts iv) 1950s Nostalgia or historical aberration(1) Lower divorce, higher fertility, wide gaps between education and job prospects, age of marriage fell (2) Teenage birth rates 2x modern(3) Spouse abuse legal(4) Child abuse legal(5) Interracial marriage illegal e) Economy i) Fewer jobs for least/moderately educated, in particular traditionally masculine occupationsii) Unemployed men are viewed (in their eyes and partners) are viewed as inferior husbands7) Risk factors for Divorcea) Low income for couple i) Economic instability b) Early age of marriage i) Poorer job c) Lack of similarity (homogamy) d) Parental divorce e) Cohabitationi) Higher levels of education, doesn’t have a relationship with divorceii) Low levels of education, has a risk factor in divorce 8) Your Risk?a) How to decrease your risk of divorce i) If you earn over $50,000 annually -30%ii) If you have graduated college -25%iii) Have a baby seven months into marriage -24%iv) Marry over age 25 -24%v) Your parents are still together -14% vi) Religious affiliation-14% 9) Perspectives of Family a) Functionalisti) Family provides social order and economic stabilityii) Family is solution to many societal problemsiii) Socialization, caring for elderly and sick, emotional needsiv) Dysfunctional families threaten well-being of individuals and society v) To solve family problems we need to strengthen family ties, and eliminate divorce/cohabitation which threaten institution of the familyb) Conflicti) Family as a major source of inequality and conflictii) Family reproduces inequality that exists in larger society (1) Reinforces patriarchy and female subordination iii) To fix family problems we need to enact tougher laws for those who threaten others in domestic situations iv) Divorce is not the cause of the problem, response to social problems (economy)c) Symbolic internationalisti) Focus on how family members play their diverse roles(1) Problems occur because(a) Men and women experience and see marriage differently (b) Unrealistic expectations about love and marriage(2) Problems in marriage will be reduced if people become aware of the different realities they have and work towards making more positive home life Marriage Promotion Urban Problems 1) How do the core values we hold influence social problems2) Marriage Promotion: TANFa) Marriage is the foundation of a successful society b) Marriage is an essential institution of a successful society, promotes children i) Sounds like functionalism- Marriage is the key institution 3) TANF Goalsa) Provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their homes b) To end the dependency of needy parents on government benefits, job preparation work and marriagec) To prevent and reduce incidence of out of wedlock pregnanciesd) To encourage the formation of two parent householdsi) Create programs about teaching how to balance a checkbook, finding the right partner, treating people right in schoole) Criticismi) The purpose of welfare is to reduce povertyii) Individuals and families should be treated fairly regardless of their marital status iii) Policies designed to help children should support all the types of families in which children really live 4) Marriage Promotion Limitationsa) Marriages are stressed by low income and income instability b) Marriage doesn’t end poverty c) Married parents look different for a variety of reasons, not just that they are unmarried Urbanization1) What is Urbanizationa) Reorganization of human society from being predominantly rural and agricultural to being, urban and nonagricultural b) Vast majority of Americans live in cities 2) Social Problems associated with urbanizationa) Segregation b) Gentrification- Urban renewal c) Housing shortages d) Overcrowding e) Unsanitary conditionsf) Pollution g) Health issues h) Fiscal concerns i) Crime 3) What is Urban? a) Urban means nonagriculturalb) Rural means any place that is not urban c) Urban is a function ofi) Population size- how many people live there ii) Space- land size iii) Ratio of population to space (density) iv) Economic and social organization(1) Order of lives and perceptions and behaviors d) Consequences of Overcrowdingi) Safetyii) Security iii) Health Implication 4) Census definition a) Densely settled core of census tracts. i) Tracts: geographic features to enclose neighborhoodsb) To qualify as an urban areai) At least 2500 people ii) At least 1000 people per square mile c) The Census Bureau identifies two types of urban areas:i) Urbanized areas of 50000 or more peopleii) Urban cluster of at least 2500 and less than 50000 peopled) Rural encompasses all population, housing not included in urban e) Migration patterns in the USi) People are leaving the mid-westii) North and south increasing in population 5) Suburbanization i) People


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