102048 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multiple Birth, Handmark, Nuclear Family
Document Summary
Childhood contexts and social practices are socially constructed: childhoods in modern western societies are spent in built environments, classrooms and playgrounds, these are human created spaces within which adults regulate and police children"s lives. Yet within this childhood is a social process being made and remade within and through social relations and ubiquitous encounters. Modern children & the family: privatisation of childhood. It is the families responsibility to raise a child - primary carers: domesticity is a pivotal feature of the nuclear family. Free-range kids: how to raise safe, self-reliant children (without going nuts with worry) (pp. Food: we"ve been poisoning our children with sugars, salts, additives and the wrong sort of fats, food now contains very little actual nourishment. Instead of building healthy bodies, it is making children fat and unhealthy: happiness, most parents would say above all they want their children to be happy.
