SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Contract, Nuclear Family
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11. 18. 15: what do definitions of family and marriage involve, what are some of the important family patterns and trends in canada, how do male and female lone parents compare, videos: life with dad and single and unequal . Sets of relationships that work to reproduce life in a daily and generational basis (fox: reproduction: helps individuals to survive and children (if any) to thrive. Commitment and ongoing exchange: commitment: social or personal contract of rights and obligations, social contract= laws. Same-sex (mid 1990s-2005: women get married younger than men, but age has gone up over years, personal contract= seriousness. Conventional nuclear family: male- breadwinner, female: homemaker, children: unmarried, at home. Few can afford a stay-at-home wife/mother: employed wives: 35-45% of family income. Almost all women return to paid work within a year of giving birth. Nuclear family (married couple w/ children: 39% of canadian families. Blended families: members once part of other families, 12% of canadian families.
