SY201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Normal Extension, Advanced Land Observation Satellite
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Chapter 19: when the baby comes home (pp. Couples have kids for all sorts of reasons. Having a child like a projects, couples take on as extension of love. Couples feel more like a family when they become parents. Heterosexual couples become more conventional and handle weight of new responsibilities by dividing between partners. Researchers ay they experience a strengthening of gendered divisions of work and responsibility. Women take on care, men take on financial providing, while alos being a helper to wife and baby playmate. Child centered care, experts say should include extensive mothering. Motherhood can be defined in terms of self-sacrifice. It is argued their emotional intensity in motherhood produces a transformation. 2 dynamic developed in study of 1990"s couples (40 couples) on the demands of parenthood: women protecting their partners, and women"s strategies for pulling their men into involvement in the care of their baby.
