SOCI 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heterosexuality, The Foundations
10 Sep 2013
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Kids sometimes can have the greatest insight into what a thing really means. What does that really mean: someone who"s always there for you, cares for you, you trust, people who brought you, people who you"re biologically related to even if they didn"t raise you. Family gets used all over the place yet its quite ambiguous: ex. If we look at this definition today single mothers, divorced couples, childless couples, grandparents who take care of a child, brother or sisters who live together are left out. This is born out of the shifts we have seen in the later 20th century and what has emerged. Families of orientation - family into which a individual is born and raised. Families of procreation - the family into which you make - the one the family makes children. Families of choice - people you bring around who become your family. It has everything to do with how laws work, how resources are redistributed.
