SOCIOL 2QQ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Foster Care, Parent Structure, Surrogacy
17 Jan 2020
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January 13th: transnational families, astronaut families/satellite kids, parachute kids/unaccompanied youth. Transitions have become normative for a growing number of canadian children. It is a cheaper alternative to formal day cares, and it gives the women running the childcare a source of income for her own family. The uncoupling of marriage and childbearing: people are finding more ways to have children, people are making deals to have a child together and be co parents but not have any sort of relationship. Marriage and heterosexuality are no longer prerequisites to parent hood. In 2010, quebec became the first province to offer ivf: adoption, foster, surrogacy, egg donors, etc, fostering provides another avenue for some canadians to pursue adoption of a child they have cared for as a foster parent. Indigenous children are vastly overrepresented: new reproductive technologies challenge the idea that parenthood is defined by biology, new reproductive possibilities lead to an increase in legal challenges about parenthood rights.
