SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Child Care, Theoretical Ecology, Hypothesis
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Women tend to report a higher average level of distress than men. Married people tend to report a lower average level of distress compared to the unmarried. Parents with children at home tend to report a higher average level of distress compared to people who are not raising children. This is not to say that women are more depressed than men, but women tend to report higher levels of symptoms associated with stress than men. If you have a bad marriage, then you will probably have more distress than if you were by yourself. Good marriages > social support becomes a buffer for stress. Children can be an economic and emotional strain and can be a persistent demand on your time which makes it more difficult to fill your other roles. The important context of social institutions and their arrangements of statuses and roles.
