SOCA02H3 Chapter 13: CHAPTER 13
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The media over-represents the negative side of family life through the types of problems they put in the spotlight: many canadian families actually value their families and the young canadians hope for a family of their own. Ideally, family life can contribute to personal development, companionship, love, sexual expression, children, care, a sense of belonging and shared resources. However, families do fight and there is resentment: more so than compared with acquaintances. Governments tend to encourage heterosexual marriage: future citizens, taxpayers, voters, consumers, workers. Governments and employers rely on parents to parent their children so that they can be productive members of society. Since 1970s: delay marriage until after schooling and securing paid employment, couples living together despite not being legally married, produce fewer children, children spend more time with non-familial carers, larger percentage of remarriages than all other marriages. People tend to live together, but more live alone (before marriage, after separation/widowhood.
