HLTHAGE 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reproductive Medicine, Nuclear Family, Gender Role
14 Nov 2018
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Increased life expectancy: families life progression is longer, how do we keep the 90"s, 100"s grandmother functioning in the family, declining fertility, less fertile than previous years, more people not wanting kids. Increased participation of women in the workforce: changes how a family would function. Increased rates of cohabitation, divorce: fewer people getting married, changes how the family functions, step-parents, etc. Ethnic diversification: mixed families, global migration, lots of people coming into canada, one person comes over and works for a couple of years then brings their whole family over, changes how their family functions. Technologies in reproductive medicine: having babies much later, test tube babies, same-sex couples having a baby, reduction in affordable housing, cost of life now vs. in the past, gender roles. "life event web: family structure, who"s still in the family, e. g. divorce/death - concept of who"s in the family can change, roles, who"s taking on what activity, communication.
