SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neoliberalism, Sexual Orientation, Child Support
4 Oct 2017
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De nitions of family and marriage have been contested, expanding. Most of 20th century, heterosexual marriage was benchmark by which many were judged. Social pressure to pursue conventional family life up until 1990"s. Diversity, choice, uidity in different aspects of private life and close relations: Family structure (traditional intact families vs. blended families) Childbearing and parenting (medical advances in how people are having babies) Parenthood increasingly detached from biology (adoption, surrogate, donor sperm/egg/embryo) Connection between marriage and childbearing transforming (unwed mothers, single people, single gay men, cohabiting parents, voluntarily childless etc. ) Increasingly looking for emotional support outside of intimate relationship. Normative for people (all ages) to experience more numerous intimate relationships, living arrangements, and family recon guration/structures due to: Increasing secularism, declining stigma around making a choice that is non- traditional, growing acceptance of lgbtq rights/parenting, diversity in intimate relationships. Challenges faced by canadian workers (ex. precarious employment) To family law = repercussions for people who end relationships.
