PSY 3123 Lecture 5: Lecture 5

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: carolinesullivan

Document Summary

Having children: personal and social reasons, change in status and is a marker event, over past 50 years, sig. drop in canadian fertility rate. Still a lot of social pressure and follow the social script: myth of motherhood- motherhood can fulfill a women in the way no other experience can. Importance of having a child of each sex: biological clock ticking in 30"s and 40"s. Why is the canadian family shrinking: medical advances. Some couples fear marital relationships will be damaged. Some women fear having to give up equality: 7-8% choose to remain childless, do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to sacrifice career, do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a part(cid:374)er for (cid:449)ho(cid:373) they (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to ha(cid:448)e childre(cid:374) Unwanted children: abortion: medical termination of pregnancy. In canada, they have been legal under certain circumstances until 1969 and with no restrictions since 1988: number have decreased, adoption, raising the child herself. Video: morgan waller 1969 fought to make abortion legal.