Family Life Cycle: 1980

Norton, Arthur J.

doi:10.2307/351506

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“…The use of average age of members in discerning the start and duration of events like the timing of children in census data also tends to obscure and wash out ethnic and class differences. Such structural factors, however, can be considered and incorporated into analysis in family development studies (Norton, 1983).…”

Section: Feminist Critique Of Flcmentioning

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Reconsidering Research On Divorce, Family Life Cycle, And The Meaning Of Family

Rice

1994

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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This article analyzes functionalist and normative assumptions about marriage, divorce, family, and gender in developmental models of family life cycle. An interdisciplinary review of the literature in family development, family sociology, and family therapy reveals how a deficit comparison model implicitly informs the discourse in the study of single‐parent families, women who are alone, and the adjustment of women and children to divorce. A feminist critique of family life cycle as the prevailing conceptual model in family development and therapy is presented, and postmodern definitions that deconstruct the concept of family are discussed. Future perspectives for research on family life and form are considered in terms of new action theory that considers divorce as a mode of resistance and change for women and families.

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Section: Feminist Critique Of Flcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering Research On Divorce, Family Life Cycle, And The Meaning Of Family

Rice

1994

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Well before the divorce rate peaked, Preston (1975) used indirect methods to estimate that 44 % of marriages would end in divorce based on the disruption rates observed in 1973. By the 1980s, most demographic analysts agreed that about one-half of marriages then being contracted would end in divorce (e.g., Cherlin 1981; Glick 1984; Norton 1983). Life table estimates based on more recent data also suggest that nearly one-half of marriages will end in divorce (Raley and Bumpass 2003; Schoen and Standish 2001).…”

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Count: The Rise of Divorce in the United States, 1980–2010

2014

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This article critically evaluates the available data on trends in divorce in the United States. We find that both vital statistics and retrospective survey data on divorce after 1990 underestimate recent marital instability. These flawed data have led some analysts to conclude that divorce has been stable or declining for the past three decades. Using new data from the American Community Survey and controlling for changes in the age composition of the married population, we conclude that there was actually a substantial increase in age-standardized divorce rates between 1990 and 2008. Divorce rates have doubled over the past two decades among persons over age 35. Among the youngest couples, however, divorce rates are stable or declining. If current trends continue, overall age-standardized divorce rates could level off or even decline over the next few decades. We argue that the leveling of divorce among persons born since 1980 probably reflects the increasing selectivity of marriage.

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“…Women are expected to wait for the opportunity to be courted. Due to differences in longevity, there Jean A. Steitz and Karen C. Welker 83 is also a larger population of eligible older women than older men from which to choose a new spouse (Norton, 1983). Indeed, single older women outnumber single older men by more than four to one.…”

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confidence: 99%