SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Childbirth, Sex Selection
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Governments generally encourage hetrosexual marriage and childbearing because they procivde citizens, taxpayers, voters, consumers, and workers. Census family: heterosexual or homo sexual coulpe with or without biological or adopted children, or a sole parent with children. Baker: a modified extended family does not share dwelling, but shares resources. All our kin: aid to families with dependent children makes presence of me, in conditions of unstable employment, irrational. Family is based on a network of female relatives who shares resources. The traditional nuclear family is composed of. At least one natural of adopted child. Parsons: economically efficient, because the man is normally the higest wage earner. It would be economically irrational of him to spend potential working time on unpaid house hold and child care. Foraging societies: children belong to a tribe/clan ( not to individual parents); collective responsibility for children. Astronaut/transnational families (e. g. hong kong and vancouver)
