SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Knowledge Engineering, Social Forces, Nuclear Family
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Most were forced out of these jobs when men returned, but by then it became clear that women could work outside the home: as women have increasingly entered the labor force, new needs in the family were created. Biblarz and stacey: biological ties to children do not explain differences in successful parenting. Biblarz and stacey: there are no gender exclusive parenting abilities (with the partial exception of breastfeeding). Both men and women are equally capable of doing all kinds of parenting: children do best when they have two parents who are preferably married. Biblarz and stacey: two compatible parents (married or unmarried, gay or straight, biologically related or not) provide more material/emotional resources than one parent. But this does not mean that there is something inherently problematic about one-parent families. One-parent families are more likely to be poor, and poverty is a contributing factor.
