week 10

Question 1

What percent of Canadian marriages end in divorce

Answer 1

40%

Question 2

The number of divorces in 2020 was what since 1973

Answer 2

lowest

Question 3

What is the decrease in divorce rate since 1991 is linked to

Answer 3

the aging of the married population

Question 4

what percent of divorces are now the result of a blank application

Answer 4

joint application by both spouses

Question 5

Which country has the highest divorce rates

Answer 5

Divorces are more common in the
United States than in all of Europe,
Canada, or Japan.
* About 1 out of every eight adults in the
The U.S. is presently divorced.

Question 6

Why has the divorce rate increased (4):

Answer 6

Demanding expectations, women working outside the home, divorce is less shameful, cohabitation is more prevalent

Question 7

Demanding expectations explained:

Answer 7

: People may expect more out of marriage
than they used to; marriage is supposed to be play, not work, and
passionate, not placid (or routine).

Question 8

Women work outside the home explained

Answer 8

: Both spouses now have access to
money and alternative partners, and the economic freedom to
divorce generally makes divorce more likely.

Question 9

Divorce is less hameful explained

Answer 9

We tend to feel that a no-fault
divorce is a more desirable response to a bad
marriage.

Question 10

cohabitation is more prevalent

Answer 10

Casual
cohabitation leads to less respect for
marriage and increases people’s willingness
to divorce.

Question 11

Levingers barrier model: George levinger proposed 3 factors influence break ups

Answer 11

Attraction, alternative, Barriers

Question 12

Attraction

Answer 12

: the desire to remain in a partnership is enhanced by its
rewards but diminished by its costs.

Question 13

Alternatives

Answer 13

tempting alternatives increase the appeal of leaving
one’s current partner.

Question 14

Barriers:

Answer 14

various social pressures, religious constraints, and financial
costs might make it hard to leave.

Question 15

Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model

Answer 15

Karney and Bradbury suggested three factors that can contribute to
divorce:

Question 16

what are three factors?

Answer 16

enduring vulnerabilities, adaptive processes, stressful events

Question 17

Enduring vulnerabilities

Answer 17

personal liabilities or weaknesses with
which people begin their marriages or relationships.

Question 18

Adaptive process:

Answer 18

: the techniques with which partners try to cope
with stress.

Question 19

Pair project focus- looked at divorce rates of 168 couples over 30 years. After 13 years how many divorced

Answer 19

35%

Question 20

Pair found 3 reasons for divorce.

Answer 20

Enduring dynamics: Spouses may bring to their marriages problems
that surfaced while dating.

Emergent distress: The problems that destroy a couple begin after
they marry so that when they
begin, there aren’t any obvious
differences between marriages
that will succeed and those that
will fail.

Disillusionment: Couples typically
begin their marriages with rosy,
romanticized views of their
relationships that are unrealistically
positive.

Question 21

Results from the pair project:: enduring dynamics model predicted what

Answer 21

how happy marriages
would be.

Question 22

best predictor of divorce was

Answer 22

The best predictor of which couples would divorce was the
disillusionment model

Question 23

3 Personal perceptions of the causes of divorce

Answer 23

1. cultural context, 2. personal context, 3. relational context

Question 24

Specific factors associated with divorce: Socioeconomic status

Answer 24

low income and low education= more divorce

Question 25

Specific factors associated with divorce: social mobility

Answer 25

constant moving leads to divorce

Question 26

Specific factors associated with divorce: age at marriage

Answer 26

teen marriages fail

Question 27

Specific factors associated with divorce: prior marriage

Answer 27

second marriages are more likely to end in divorce than
first marriages are.

Question 28

a consequence of break ups: impact on health 4

Answer 28

high stress leads to psychosomatic illness, ulcers, insomnia, hypertension, and substance abuse

Question 29

Breakups: social networks

Answer 29

People lose approximately
half of the members of their
social networks

Question 30

Breakups: impact on children

Answer 30

Children of divorce exhibit
lower levels of well-being when
they reach adulthood, than do
those whose parents stay
married.

Question 31

Aftermath of break ups: Parental loss

Answer 31

children may simply be less well off with one
parent instead of two

Question 32

Aftermath: Parental stress

Answer 32

the parents’ own difficulties may affect the
quality of their parenting.

Question 33

Aftermath: Economic hardship

Answer 33

the impoverished circumstances that often
follow divorce, and not the divorce per se, may be damaging.