SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bread Givers, Married People, Marxist Feminism
3 Dec 2012
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Definitions of family shape government social policy and inform the decisions we make about how we live our lives. Your child or the child of your spouse or common-law partner (of at least one year) The common law partner of your father/mother. Now includes: anyone who you consider family. In other countries, inter racial marriage and inter faith marriage are prohibited. Welfare rules have prohibited support from family members and others. For formally married canadians, matrimony laws state for there to be an equal division of financial assets. (different for non-regular marriage) Families are socially constructed and change over time and place. Heterosexual nuclear family; sexual division of labour. Impact of industrialization: families were no longer units of production but units of consumption. Emergence of private property resulted in control over women"s fidelity. Most important type of peace, monogamy (fidelity) To make sure the males inheritance goes to the biological child.
