SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: System On A Chip, Peanut Butter, Doctrine

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Lecture 5: important trends in family life con"t. Canadians increasingly choosing to live alone: statscan: One-person households and households containing couples without children are growing the fastest. Little or no growth among couples with children. Lone person households outnumber families for the first time in canadian history. Why: greater financial independence for women makes it possible for them to live alone, declining social stigma. Delayed home-leaving is increasing: cluttered nest or delayed launchers . Boomerang adults have moved out but move back in at some point. Ethnic reasons: some cultural groups it"s expected for adults to live at home until married, especially women. People squeezed between providing care for their kids & care for their aging parents. Developed in 20th c as life ex increased and fewer kids: women less caregivers. Transnational families associated with globalization: astronaut families. Families where head of family lives and works in one country while remaining members live in other country: parachute kids.

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