PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psych
16 Sep 2014
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So even though dramatically increase in same sex marriage, the number of children in home did not change much. Issues with self efficacy and financial issues (when happens despite of trying not to have children) Leads to life changes in career plan that you did not intend. Unintended births higher among disadvantaged population: serves to keep disadvantaged individuals in more disadvantage situation (eg. financially- harder to pull you out from financial difficulties because you have unintended children: finally!! Not suffering psychologically relative to childless couples. Depending on their circumstances: depending on how this decision came to be, there are very different affect on the parent, timing of how one adapts to this change is very important. Graph1: the average maternal dips to its lowest in mid 1970s. but very high currently. But if you look back at 1994, it was also very high. Graph2: increase in births to mothers over 30 years old.
