FMSC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blue-Collar Worker, Artificial Insemination, Voluntary Childlessness

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Family Science
• Course: FMSC 330
• Professor: Zeiger

Document Summary

Modern society: modified many of these functions, makes some of the functions difficult to perform, recent changes of marriage in family are adjustments, divorce, single parent, working mothers, marriage equality. Egalitarian splitting roles in the family as equally as we can and not having roles based on gender. 4 functions of the family things like technology, industrialization mobility alters the way a family performs its functions. While these are the basic functions families are supposed to fill, they do not always fulfil them all nor do they fulfil them well: produces and socializes children. Reproduction and socialization the family makes society possible as they replace members of society as the older members die off. The development of techniques that have been called artificial insemination has separated reproduction from sexual intercourse, and made it possible for infertile or gay couples to have children. Children are helpless and totally dependent for years following birth.