SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Attraction, Gender Binary, Single Parent
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Sexuality is identity, behaviours and attractions. Sexuality is very complex with many factors. Sexuality and gender binary is intrusive and constricting: there are boys toys vs girls toys. Husband works, mother is stay at home, children are in the home and they attend school. Nuclear family definition hetero relationship with one child, presumably someone works for income. These types of families are anomalies; for decades. Ideal family form(struc functionalist) each parents serves important function to raise children (cost 244000) 1 bread winner no longer viable, dual earner: trends since the 1900s. Household size decreasing more overall less reproduction. Effects of divorce: divorce is hardest on women and children. Dividing assets, children are moved around, child support often goes unpaid: children are effected heavily emotionally by divorce. Could lead to deviance: current divorce rate is 38% Spike in divorce when it becomes easier to get a divorce. Egalitarianism in us households take 1 of 3 stances.
