FRHD 1020 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - Couples and Family
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Market event: an event that signals a change in status y social pressure to have children. Myth: motherhood is an instinct that can fulfill a woman in a way no other experience can y also importance of having a child of each sex for a well rounded family. Until recently, women s economic survival depended on marriage. Men s power over women s sexuality and the resulting children were the price women paid for economic security. y the size of families has dropped from 4 children to 2. 5. y to replace population women must have 2. Children y teenage pregnancies rose to 25. 8 of every 1000 in 1981 to 13. 3 in 2005 y. Out of wedlock (births to unwed mothers) account for some of the fertility was illegitimate until 1974. Immigration is in fact helping to maintain canadian population. Some pregnancies of single and married individuals are unwanted.