Family and marriage bonds have shifted from lifelong to intragenerational and serial

Evidence

In late modernity, finally, family cycles display an unmistakable tendency to take on an infragenerational lifespan, for which increasing divorce and remarriage rates as well as the rearrangement or disintegration of households are the clearest evidence. Today the life period partner is tending to replace the life partner. This argument does not by any means suppose the decline of the ideal of the bourgeois family per se, on the contrary: it is entirely consistent with the empirical finding that this form of life is in fact a social model to an increasing degree and that individuals today are still inclined to enter into (new) familial ties. However, lifelong monogamy is being replaced ever more frequently by a new form of “serial monogamy” or “romantic partners for a time.” — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 331

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern kinship no longer structures daily life for most people — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 279; Romantic bonds are now formed as transactable speculative positions — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 13; Younger generations retain strong ties but lost bridging ties to wider community — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 952

Broader Connections

• Modern kinship no longer structures daily life for most people #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 279
• Romantic bonds are now formed as transactable speculative positions #exemplifies (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 13
• Younger generations retain strong ties but lost bridging ties to wider community #expands (0.75) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 952