PSYC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Contract, Stepfamily, Social Change
Document Summary
What do we know about cross-cultural difference in the effects of authoritarian parenting. How does paternal play affect child development: social development for boys and girls. Age of parents: adults in canada are older when they marry, parental age has increased. Marriage: marriage rates have gone down, more children born to unmarried parents. Divorce: federal law changed divorce rates gone up, culturally also more acceptable. Multiple partnerships: more common to marry/partner more than once, more children have step-parents than before. Same-sex marriage: marriage act (2005, children grow up with same-sex parents. Age at childbirth has increased for both men and women in canada: older marriage age, family planning techniques. In some cases, more technology for family planning to be more effective. Live births after mother is 35: 4% of all canadian births in 1987, 19% of all canadian births in 2010.
