SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Sandwich Generation, Neoliberalism
20 Apr 2016
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Family lives of the middle-aged and elderly in canada. Families in mid-life have not been the focus of sociological research. Care of our aging population represents one of the biggest social policy challenges. Our population is aging, and care is needed, at a time of increasing female labour force participation. Mid-life has become more individuated and diverse. The experience of mid-life has shifted historically. In the 19th century most women spent almost their entire adult lives raising dependent children. The period during which adult children and parents are alive at the same time is longer than ever before in canadian history. Today canadians will spend more years caring for their aging parents than raising their children. Of those aged 50, only 16% would have had one or more surviving parents in 1910 as compared with. Most canadians will have more parents than children. It is a myth that single-parent households are more common today than in the past.
