W4 Marital Dynamics

 While you study these research findings, consider the following questions:

  1. How are these macro-level trends impacting marriage on the micro-level? (See Ecological systems theory)Links to an external site.
  2. Relative to these trends, what have you observed?
  3. What are your concerns about these trends?
  4. What do each one of these trends mean for children?
  5. What questions do you have about these trends?

STATE OF OUR UNIONS 2019: Today, just over one third (36 percent of women and 35 percent of men) believe that divorce should be more difficult to obtain, compared to 50 percent twenty years ago. Belief that divorce is morally acceptable has increased from 59 percent in 2001 to 76 percent in 2018, meaning about 1 percent of the population has shifted into this view, on average, every year for the past 17 years. This is sobering news, as more permissive divorce attitudes are associated with lower quality, more unstable marriages (Amato, Booth, Johnson, & Rogers, 2007)

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