Your Name: _Erin Sorenson_
In answering the questions below, do not lift words or copy exactly the sentences in the article. PARAPHRASE or use your own words to summarize the ideas from the article.
1. Reference or bibliographic entry of your selected article in APA style (see example in the first assignment guidelines):
Hardie, J., & Lucas, A. (2010). Economic Factors and Relationship Quality Among Young Couples:
Comparing Cohabitation and Marriage. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(5), 1141-1154. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.library.wmich.edu/stable/40865600
2. What are the aims and/or research questions of the study?
This study is examining the effect of financial stability/economic resources on the quality of
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The authors’ aim was to contribute to the literature on relationship quality through examination of different types of relationships, and the effect of economic resources on perceived relationship quality.
4. Describe the participants of the study. Since you are supposed to choose an article of a cross-cultural study on families, the participants for this study should have different cultural backgrounds. What are these cultural backgrounds? What are the demographics of the participants?
Although the study focuses on two main populations, cohabiting and married couples, there are very distinct trends amongst the members of each of the groups. Hardie and Lucas (2010) emphasize the correlation between cohabitation and low education levels, low socioeconomic status, young adults, divorcees, non-whites, and those more supportive of egalitarian gender roles. These traits are also commonly associated with ethnic minorities. The article also discusses the elevated levels of domestic violence in low income households attributing above average levels of abuse to economic hardship and distress. Since cohabiting couples are more likely to be culturally diverse, less educated, and financially insecure (often living in poverty) compared to married couples, they are more susceptible to fluctuation in the economy, and therefore more vulnerable to the effects of economic hardship
Which parts of the information provided would you use for listing the article in an APA format reference list (a list attached to the end of one’s writing, under the heading “References” that shows one or more publications used)?
To be clear, the intent of this essay is not to argue for or against the content; instead, we are analyzing what the article does in terms of the following:
Domestic violence, alternatively referred to as Intimate Partner Violence, is defined by the Department of Justice as “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.” While domestic violence is commonly thought of as only physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence can also be emotional, economic, or psychological. Domestic violence has remained constant in society throughout history, even though over time society’s response to the issue has changed. While domestic violence affects everyone regardless of race, gender, age, etc. it is estimated that approximately 90% of all victims are women. For the purpose of this paper, I will be focusing on
The article constructs domestic violence as an issue of gender, race and socioeconomic status. Women are identified as the “majority” of victims (Taylor 2014). Consequently, the article conceptually represents domestic violence as events of intimate terrorism where one partner violently terrorizes the other partner to gain complete control over the relationship, which is entirely perpetrated by men (Johnson 2012). With that said, Johnson (2012) points out that majority of domestic violence is situational couple violence, where both the man and the
Many couples find themselves cohabiting today because it is cheaper and more convenient while others take it as a step forward in their committed relationships. Regardless of reason cohabiting has become a union of choice. In recent years cohabitation has transformed from an act of deviance to a norm in many societies. We will be focusing on how time and social change determines cohabitation and divorce.
Neil Clark Warren in his essay “The Cohabitation Epidemic” starts by using tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf’s case to mention the “cohabitation” issue and then quoting the data from the U.S Census Bureau and researcher Larry Bumpass to show that the number of people involved in cohabitation has significantly increased in the U.S in the last few decades. After that, Warren concludes that we should be alarmed over the recent increase of cohabiting couples. Before arguing against cohabitation, Warren introduces what kinds of people are cohabiting and why they are cohabiting. Followed by that, the author first uses the
With over one million American children suffering yearly from their parents getting a divorce, it is evident why couples desire to cohabit before marrying. Divorce has shown to have a terrible effect on children (Fagan and Rector, 56). For some children this can result in lifelong psychological problems. Children who use drugs and alcohol are more likely to have come from a background that involves parental conflicts, such as divorce. Since divorce increases the chances of the children effected to abuse drugs or alcohol, many couples have been taking an extra step of cohabiting before marrying to hopefully decrease their chances of divorcing. However, divorce rates have steadily increased with the rapid increase of cohabitation rates. These divorce rates have been increasing steadily because it is now easier than ever to obtain a “no-fault” divorce. Also, these rates have been increasing because women no longer have to depend on the men in their lives to support them. As mentioned before, women are just as strong in the work force as men.
Your Research Question- Give your research question (may be a working question). Give background for your question.
Describe the correlation between bride wealth and stability of marriage. How is your understanding of this relationship impacted by the status of women in pastoral societies?
Lundberg, Pollak, and Sterns (2015) article is about rising divorce, gender wage gap and variation in marriage and unmarried living arrangements. They used US Census data, Child Trends data bank and National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and 2007–2013 Current Population Survey data. They have discovered, women with high educational attainment to marry first than women with lower educational attainment. They found some difference in cohabitation between upper and lower education. Individuals with college education living in cohabitation for 1.5 years to be married, and people with less education at 2 years. The gender wage gap has declined over 4 decades and closer to equal pay. The pay inequality between men and women is
Domestic violence happens every day and it includes people of all races, ethnicities, color, religions, rich or poor, old or young, man or woman and physical and mental disabilities. Domestic violence happens to anyone regardless of where you live, work and how smart you are; these do not matter to the person committing the acts of violence against you. Today, domestic violence goes by Intimate partner violence defined as actual or threatened physical or sexual violence or psychological/emotional abuse by a spouse, ex-spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend, or date (Meadows, 2014). There are other forms of domestic violence such as stalking and dating violence. Domestic violence just doesn’t occur to married couples,
There is a common misconception that cohabitation before marriage is the best test to see if couples are compatible enough to get married later on. Unmarried cohabiting couples have been increasing over the last few decades. Decisions that 20-29 year old people make now can affect their relationships in the future. Most couples assume that they are taking the right steps toward marriage when moving in with their partner, however, there are studies that show greater success in marriages for couples who have not cohabited beforehand. Using several different academic studies showed some significant findings. Couples who live together before getting engaged and/or married are more likely to get divorced than those who do not move in together until engagement or marriage, and that couples who live together before engagement report lower satisfaction in their marriages. Understanding why it is that a phenomenon that has become so common, and why such results are happening will be discussed.
These constraints lead some cohabiting couples to marry, even though they would not have married under other circumstances. On the basis of this framework, Stanley, Rhoades, et al. (2006) argued that couples who are engaged prior to cohabitation, compared with those who are not, should report fewer problems and greater relationship stability following marriage, given that they already have made a major commitment to their partners. Several studies have provided evidence consistent with this hypothesis (Brown, 2004; Rhoades, Stanley, & Markman, 2009).
Domestic violence refers to abusive behavior in any relationship that is inflicted on a partner to gain or maintain power and control over another partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological. Domestic violence includes behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. Domestic violence can happen to anyone, regardless of their race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender; and it also occurs in both opposite-sex and same-sex relationships; domestic violence also affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels (Justice, The United States Department of, 2017). This topic has attracted a lot of discussion and research because of its dominance and complexity. This essay, therefore seeks to look at the causes and effects of domestic violence.
Opponents of cohabitation commonly cite statistics that indicate that couples who have lived together before marriage are more likely to divorce, and that unhappiness, ill health, poverty, and domestic violence are more common in unmarried couples than in married ones. Cohabitation advocates, in turn, cite limited research that either disproves these claims or indicates that the statistical differences are due to other factors than the fact of cohabitation itself.