SOCSCI 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Family, Glaxosmithkline, Indian Act
3 Feb 2017
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Economic constraints related to later age at marriage and not marrying. Endogamous marriages (marrying within same social group) Divorce need both husbands and wives labour to survive, divorce not possibility. Household economic unit depend on each other to work. Country: elderly women living with adult children. Early briish and french setlers had families that were nuclear and patriarchal and involved monogamous marriage matrilineal. This contrasts many of the indigenous groups of canada where privaized nuclear households did not exist. Early european setlers and missionaries were highly criical of the family structure, living arrangements, and gender relaions of indigenous groups. During setlements more males than females, so many setlers married indigenous women. Early setlement period high birth rate. Also inluenced by catholic church oppose contracepion. Middle class to upper class tradiional nuclear family (husband breadwinner, wife homemaker) Lower class lower rates of marriage, higher rates of children being born out of wedlock. The huron did not live in privaized nuclear households.
