FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Socioeconomic Status, 6 Years, Ovulation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Skakoon- Sparling

Document Summary

Couple and family relationships lecture 18 march 2nd. Employment status in particular mothers and whether or not daycare is needed: socioeconomic status and ethnicity. Values and functions adults happy to having children and number of children a couple desires: family size norms. Middle class women have fewer children - more education (delay) Social pressure from parents to have children: psychosocial factors, altruistic. Unselfish desire to express affection and concern fro children: generatively (erikson) Fulfilment of ones psychological need to needed: fatalistic perspective. Believe in procreation and continuation of family name: instrumental reasons. Children achieve things parents did not, please one"s own parents, secure an intimate relationship. A couples approach to getting pregnant may be indicative of their approach to other phases. Those initiating sex with the goal of pregnancy compared to those who stop using birth control and let whatever happen may be better prepared in other phases of parenthood (cowan &