SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Integration, Parenting, Sex Education
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Downward trend of childbearing continues, w the exception of "baby boom" Couples assess the costs and benefits of childbearing. Engrains deep sense of responsibility deep within us. From rational perspective, (weigh benefits against cost), children may be able to take care of you, love, social integration. Accidental pregnancy, parenthood because everyone is y g. Drinking problems in fams (your nurture was affected) Lone parents and their children make up nearly 16% of all fams in canada. Most lone parent fams are headed by women by the percentage headed by men is increasing. Couples who have no children 38. 4% of all fams. Childless people have no fewer friends than parents do and experience less stress. Attitudes towards open vs close/secret adoption vary (read up on this) Some believe that open adoptions reassure the birth parents of the child"s well-being, while others argue that contacts with birth parents disrupt the adoptive fam.
