SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Voluntary Childlessness, Feminist Movement, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Week 7: blackstone, a and stewart m. d. (2012) choosing to be childfree: research on the decision not to parent. Sociology compass, 6(9) 718-727: ochs and kremer-sadlik(2013) chapter 8: nuturing. Issues: how do families experience birth and raising children, how do families experience(in)voluntary childlessness. Learning objecive: to grasp the diferent ways families are (dis)organized, afected and perceived when. More women and men choose not to have children. The dink"s phenomena: too late(biological clock, freedom, wanted but could not, could not ind the right person, macro-social causes, micro-social causes, more birth planning opions (included sterilizaion, waves of feminist movement from 1970s. Staisics tell you diferent stories about demographics (refer to powerpoint for graphs) Not having children = sigma: what kinds of sigma reducion strategies couples who decide to be cf use to avoid sigma. What counts as family when we consider cf families. What can we say about cf families or families with children in regards to being seen as selish .
