SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intimate Partner Violence, Parental Leave, Premarital Sex
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New family forms, including single-parent families, common-law families, and gay and lesbian families have become increasingly prevalent in recent decades. Extended family expands the nuclear family vertically by adding another. After wwii, canadians experienced a marriage and baby boom due to the prosperous economic conditions this time period represents a historical anomaly as the nuclear family was weakening both before and gradually continued to weaken after the 1950s. Argue that the traditional nuclear family emerged along with private property and inequalities of wealth (ex. early agricultural societies when private property was legally recognized) Men came to enjoy legal control of property and wealth and sexual control, in the form of enforced female monogamy, ensured that his property would be transmitted to only his offspring and the traditional nuclear family (ie. communism) Believed that the end of private property would bring an end to gender inequality.
