SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Long, Long, Long, Nuclear Family, Welfare Dependency
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Referring to the decline of a nuclear family, one husband one wife and one child. Sociologists think that the fact that there is no stay at home mother usually is one of the reasons why there is raising rates of crime, illegal drug use, poverty, welfare dependency, etc. However others argue it does not cause this at all. Decreasing prevalence of traditional nuclear family and diversification has benefited many men, women, and children and have not harmed other children as much as functionalists think. Argue that nuclear is the ideal because it supports economic cooperation and the nuclear ideal. 1 breadwinner, 1 household, 1 child to keep the population alive. 5 main things a traditional nuclear family provides: sexual regulation. Nuclear family defines the boundaries where legitimate sexual activity is permitted. Although people still perform premarital and extramarital sex : economic cooperation. A man and a woman make an efficient cooperating unit.
