Sociology › Section N · Marriage and family › Topic N.3
Challenges families face
Families are a source of love and support, but they can also break apart or become places of harm. This topic examines divorce and remarriage, and the hard realities of intimate partner violence and child abuse, using careful evidence rather than myths.
In this topic
- When families are under strain
- Divorce: rise and fall
- Worked example: reading divorce statistics
- Who is most likely to divorce?
- Children, divorce and remarriage
- Worked example: weighing a divorce's effect
- Intimate partner violence
- Why leaving is hard, and where help is
- Child maltreatment
- The corporal punishment debate
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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