Valerie is a 30-year-old single woman with no children. Last year she finished a graduate degree and moved out of her parents’ basement into an apartment of her own. She is searching for the right partner to be in a committed relationship with, but has not found that person yet. At Thanksgiving, Valerie’s grandmother asked her when she might be getting married and having children and said,
“By the time I was your age I was married and had all three of my children.” Sociologists would most likely point to changes in _________ in order to explain Valerie and her grandmother’s different experiences at this stage of life.
A) serial gender norms
B) the transition to adulthood
C) no-fault divorce
D) the dual-earner family model
B) the transition to adulthood
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