SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Talcott Parsons, Friedrich Engels, Marxist Feminism
14 Nov 2016
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Definitions of family shape gov"t social policy and inform the decisions we make about how to live our lives. Your child or the child of your spouse or common-law partner (of at least one year) Policies that assume financial support (i. e. filial responsibility laws) Families are socially constructed and change over time and place. Impact of industrialization: families were no longer units of productions, but units of consumption. Emergence of private property resulted in control over women"s fidelity. Family: site of potential conflict and male privilege. Economic affluence promoted family life (i. e. early marriage, large families) Research on the impact of divorce on children. Income security programs such as maternity and parental leaves. Cash transfers to families in the form of direct payments and tax deductions. Maintenance payments, which involve child support for children whose parents. Maintenance payments, which involve child support for children whose parents have divorced. Universal childcare benefit and canada tax benefit replaced by the canada.
