FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Old Age Security, Childlessness, Consanguinity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Skakoon- Sparling

Document Summary

The transition of having a child is significant because you add the parental role. Parental role: composed of both formal norms and informal norms about the level of care, economic and social support, nurturance, discipline, and protection adults are responsible for regarding their children. It is also an important transition because the child is treated as consanguine (with blood) relative, and those relationships about durable in both cultural and legal ways. It is estimated that 75% of couples experience a decline in their feelings of love and less motivation to work on the couple relationship with the birth of the first child. Most explanations rely on macro-structural causes such as the environment, social norms, and economic constraints. Other explanations focus on the micro-individual level, being related to choices that individuals and couples make. Individual choices are often based on macro-structural influences such as having a stable job or owning a home.