SOCL 2505 Chapter : Chapters 1-3
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What"s a contemporary family context: today"s families are vastly different, single parent, gay & lesbian, mixed ethnic & racial etc, modern family, diversity can either be tolerated or of great concern. Utilitarian: want to go to college, graduate, career- work perspective. The american family before 1776: family diversity, more diverse outside new england, loss of a parent, some claimed marriages that didn"t exist in the church, informal marriages, diversity diminished as churches expanded and parent mortality diminished. Women"s and men"s spheres: transition from farming to wage labor, rise of commercial capitalism, women left home alone to tend to children and household, separate spheres , from cooperation to separation. 1946-1964 huge spike in the birthrate: explanations: Shift in preferred family size: high-point for the homemaker-breadwinner household, the 1960s and beyond, birthdate plunged, marriage delayed, young people wanted independence, cohabitation trend begins, divorce rate doubled, women working outside the home.
