FRHD 3040 Lecture 8: FRHD 3040 – lecture 8 – becoming parents and parenting infants and toddlers
11 Feb 2019
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Frhd 3040 lecture 8 becoming parents and parenting infants and toddlers. In canada: diverse parenting arrangements, older parents and fewer children, social climate characterized by fewer or leaner supports, greater financial and care burdens by provincial governments. Deciding to parent in canada: many pathways to parenthood, conception of a woman with her male partner, adoptions, foster care, assisted reproductive technologies including surrogacy, partnering with someone who already has a child. Individual agency: emotional/economic, gender identity and gender socialization. Societal institutions other than the family: educational and career goals, available opportunities in the job market, connection with social and/or workplace policy. Deciding to parents in north america: economic factor. Safe food handling: vitamin supplementation that includes folic acid, folic acid deficits linked to neural tube defects. Poverty: a risk factor for low birth weight infants. Infant care in traditional cultures: intensive physical nurturance maximizes health and survival of newborns: breast feeding on demand.
