SOC246H1 Lecture : Families-SOC246.docx
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The family, as a fundamental social institution, influences daily life and life chances through the life course. Families are age integrative social institution multigenerational tied together. Socialization and care in early life, coordinating care in later life, a context for many major life transitions. Who shares some values, goals, resources for decisions and who have commitment to one another over time. In canada, 55% normative , 32% age-condensed, and 13% age-gapped: emergence of truncated families, the lineage structure does not continue. By choice or by chance to not have children. Increasing number of blended or reconstituted families after remarriage following widowhood or divorce: after divorce grandparent situation, modern family, more grandparents for few children. To be cared for economically by the parents. More and more children are returning home from the bad economic times after university for 6 months or more (lack of jobs, student debts)