WGS250H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Marriage Law, Immigration Law
13 Apr 2014
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Determine who is responsible for providing financial aid emotional support for children. Refers to who is responsible for household maintenance. Payment for rent or mortgage , or taxes or utilities. Common law couple and children if any. Nuclear family the part of a family that includes only the father, mother and children. What does this mean for families who do not fit this ideology. Westernized ideology of the nuclear family as the primariy social unit. Hyped in the 1950 as a american dream. Normalized and universalized the nuclear family is often what we think of as family. But it is not universal in all cultures. Conception: blood ties/biological relations, variable cross culturally. Incest taboos: social definition of kinships relations defining incest rather than concepts of natural biological imperatives within a family unit. Parent/child: widespread practices of adoption/fostering, mother child, bond is not natural and inevitable. Marriage- culturally socialized, often decided through social arrangements, determines percentage, inheritcane, paternity, status.
