Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 10: Nuclear Family, Symbolic Interactionism, Parental Leave
11 Jan 2018
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Introduction: divorce rates have gone up over the past century, families have become smaller as many women delay childbearing to pursue post secondary education. Feminism: studied gender relations in families for the smooth functioning of capitalism. Economic prosperity and the traditional nuclear family: north american and western europe divorce rates (the number of live births per. Divorce: 1968 divorce was inaccessible to canadians because a person wanting divorce had to apply to the canadian senate to have divorce granted by an act of. Increasing in canada: the raising of children in same sex marriage has been legal since 2005 but only recently have parents been able to foster and adopt children through children"s. Single person households: single person households are increasing and they outnumbered families for the first time, people may have cohabitated in the past or married in the past.
