SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Higher Education, Parental Leave, Opportunity Cost
8 Apr 2016
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Learning intentions: to examine how age, gender, marriage, education, and income/work status affect childlessness. This study analyzes a data sample from the 2006. General social survey on family transitions (4,755 women and 3,411 men aged 30-49). Young people give high priority to three life goals: having satisfying work, living in an enduring union, and having children. Most young couples don"t make a direct decision to be be childless, rather childlessness results from a. "waiting game", or a series of postponements of childbearing. Schooling and work impose structural constraints on family life. There have been major changes in both over recent decades. Canadian women, school attendance and work participation have greatly increased. Canadian men (between 1981-2001), both the proportion of men working full time and earning levels have declined. The disadvantaged situation of recent entry to the labour force affects entry into marriage and parenthood which is dependent on men"s earnings and career mobility.
