FAD-2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-18: Intimate Partner Violence, Parenting Styles, Surrogacy
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Fertility rates the keys to understanding population growth. Historical fluctuation of u. s fertility rates: 1930s, 1950"s, 1960"s/70"s. One sociologist, betty friedan, warned that american society does not support having children: american society is characterized by structural anti-natalism. Our values, laws, employment policies and culture are inimical to children and disastrous to committed parents. The average of women"s having first birth: 21 (1970, 25. 4 (2012) Waiting before having children is not the same thing as thinking in an organized fashion about having children. The thinking process would include: the financial investment, the emotional investment, the energy investment, the time investment. Direct financial costs: out of pocket expenses for things such as food, clothing, housing, and education: prenatal care: ultra sounds, check-ups, birth and hospital stay costs, formula, diapers, clothes, top two costs: housing and food. Opportunity costs: lost opportunities for income by working only part-time or not at all because of children. Emotional feelings of love and devotion towards children.
