PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Total Fertility Rate, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Teenage Pregnancy
24 Jul 2017
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Enlarging the family circle: various reasons, both personal and social, for having children, having a child results in change in status and is a marker event, over past 50 years, signi cant drop in canadian fertility rate. 2009: 1. 7 children per woman: still a great deal of social pressure to have children, or to follow the social script. Myth of motherhood frames motherhood as an instinct that can ful ll a woman in a way no other experience can. Another part of the myth is the importance of having a child of each sex. Some unmarried women in their 30s and 40s hear their biological clock and choose to have children, some without a long-term partner. Also determines experiences of families with children: symbolic interactionists focus on personal reasons for not/having children. !1: feminist theories tend to study child-bearing as an issue re ecting women"s control.
