PSY 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parental Leave, Nuclear Family
9 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Class 12: May 9
Modern
Families
● Increase in dual-income families as women enter the workforce
○ Especially once children enter school years
● In 4 in 10 families, the mother is the primary breadwinner
○ Women start making more than their husbands
● In some countries, father receive a year of paid parental leave
○ In the US and Canada, they don’t receive any time off
● In some countries, mother receives more than a year of leave
○ In the US, they only receive 2.8 weeks of paid leave
● Scientific definitions of family focus on:
○ Structure (who), function (physical and psychological), when
(transitions, history), and where (geographic area)
Changes in
Families
Living Arrangements
● Less two parents in first marriage (from 75% to 46%)
● More single parent (from 9% to 26%)
● Increase in no parent households (from 4% to 5%)
● More two parents in remarriage
● Lot more cohabitating non married parents
More configurations
● Mother-stepfather
● Father-stepmother
● Multigenerational marriage/couple
● Non-resident parent families
Family Types
● Traditional: heterosexual, two-parent family with 1+ children
○ Also known as the nuclear family
● Non-Traditional: single parents, cohabiting parents, step parents
○ Typically result from marriage separation/divorce and
formation of new cohabiting or married relationships
● New Families: forms that did not exist or were hidden from society,
more fundamental shift away from traditional family
○ Lesbian and gay headed families, single mother by choice
families, families created using assisted reproductive tech
Same-Sex Households
● Over 150,000 married since supreme court extended marriage
equality in Obergefell vs. Hodges case
○ Over 1.1 million LGBT adults currently married to a same-
sex partner in US
● Allowed in other countries such as Scandinavian countries, Europe,
Australia, South Africa, and parts of Latin America
○ In others it is illegal or punishable by death
● Support for same sex marriage has increased, especially in
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Document Summary
Increase in dual-income families as women enter the workforce. In 4 in 10 families, the mother is the primary breadwinner. Women start making more than their husbands. In some countries, father receive a year of paid parental leave. In the us and canada, they don"t receive any time off. In some countries, mother receives more than a year of leave. In the us, they only receive 2. 8 weeks of paid leave. Structure (who), function (physical and psychological), when (transitions, history), and where (geographic area) Less two parents in first marriage (from 75% to 46%) More single parent (from 9% to 26%) Increase in no parent households (from 4% to 5%) Traditional: heterosexual, two-parent family with 1+ children. Non-traditional: single parents, cohabiting parents, step parents. Typically result from marriage separation/divorce and formation of new cohabiting or married relationships. New families: forms that did not exist or were hidden from society, more fundamental shift away from traditional family.
