SOCB49H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mothers Talk, Sociology Of The Family, Takers
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In reproductive labour there are two primary components. One is producing new generation and the other is sustaining the existing generation. Parenting is required, if we are going to produce and reproduce new generation of workers. Parenting is one of the essential components of reproductive labour. It is not only child bearing but child rearing. Child bearing is only 9months but child bearing takes a lifetime. Parenting requires that we convert and also mobilize existing resources and social relations. Existing resources is physical and emotional labour is required in child rearing. Notonly parents need to evoke physical and emotional labour they need to mobilize and convert existing social relations. Sometimes we hear that it takes a whole community to raise a child, we are taking about social relations. In order for social relations to be available for child rearing we need to sustain and rejuvenate the social relations. That is how we unpack the notion of parenting.
