PAM 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Demographic Transition, Surrogacy, Social Class

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Policy, Analysis and Management
• Course: PAM 2030
• Professor: Sharon Sassler

Document Summary

Caused by living longer, fertility declines, increased likelihood of living in urban areas, and higher standards of living. Households no longer depend on marriage for their creation, nor on death to dissolve. Children live in a variety of family, housing arrangements. More prevalent now partly due to policy changes making it easier to divorce. Use of in vitro fertilization and technology to become parent without partner. More highly educated mothers delayed marriage more cohabitation. Higher levels of children growing up with multiple parents. In almost every society, people have organized lives around a family unit. Family- group of people related to one another by marriage, birth, or adoption. Assume various rights and obligations with membership. Two or more people living together, and related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Friends for emotional and economic support not included in definition. Households: people who share a housing unit (consumption unit)