HUEC 1000 : Test 1 Notes
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Families: 1930"s ernest burgess, family is a unity made up of individual, interacting personalities, this is the beginning of what is known as family scientists. The family of social construction is the family created to serve the nurturance and acceptance needs of the individual. As you can see there are many different configurations of family structures. 20th century: married with children, 1970 40, 2000 24, due to decline in marriage rates, married without children, children residing with 2 parents, 1970 30, 2000 30, 1980 77, 2000 69% Aafcs and ncfr need to sponsor legislation to help families: families are the nation"s most important resource. Are families growing apart: us increasing individualistic, people are preoccupied with pursuit of personal happiness, mobility of families, no longer live in close proximity. Psychosocial factors: length of acquaintance the longer the better, age at marriage - success increases with age, social class and residence lower socioeconomic group have marriages that don"t last as long.
