FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consanguinity, Gestation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Transitions teens and early 20s a shift commonly occurs with couples in the late 20s and early 30s beginning to shift towards getting pregnant rather than preventing it they switch from not wanting a child- to wanting a child. 75% of couples feel decline in their feelings of love experience less motivation to work on the couple relationship with the birth of their first child. Actual day of birth and time of birth- actual transition: deciding to have a baby, conception, gestation- while the pregnancy is happening, birth, process of adapting to having the child at home. Complex timing norms about relationships that are age and duration graded: eg- breast feeding/ different food/ potty- trained/ sex education. Conformity: having children is something you"re supposed to do when your an adult. Experience: don"t want to miss out on own experience of having children.