PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Assisted Reproductive Technology, Visible Minority

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Living in a dwelling with one or more children. Close to 20% of children under 12 live in a lone-parent household across canada. 8 in 10 lone parent families headed by a women. 2011: 34. 4% of aboriginal children vs. 17. 4%of all canadian children. Reasons: increase in unmarried mothers, children and marriage are regarded separately, increase in the divorce rate. Becoming a lone-parent may be the result of: not marrying, divorce, death of a spouse. Likely to have higher education and established careers. Assisted reproduction technologies allows some older women to have a child without a partner. As a group, lone-parent families have the lowest average total incomes. Female lone parents are at risk of living in poverty. Working lone mothers experience tension and juggle work, family and daycare. 2010-regulated childcare spaces could only accommodate 19% of children. Canada is the last among developed countries in terms of access to childcare.