8 - Family Institution Flashcards
Nuclear family
A parent(s) and children
Extended family
Includes parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, amnd cousins
Simple households
Unrelated adults with or without children
Complex households
Two or more adults who are related but not married to each other and hence could be expected to live separately
Changing canadian families
- Age of first marriage is rising
- Increase in divorces
- Children in 30s
- Drop in number of kids/fam
- Children are leaving home at a later age.
- There are more lone-parent families.
- There are more people living alone
How are families in Quebec unique
- highest cohabitation rate
- Lowest marriage rate
- Highest divorce rate
- Greatest number of births to single mothers
Conjugal (or marital) roles
The distinctive roles of the
husband and wife that result from the division of labour within the family
Bott hypothesis
Characterised conjugal roles as segregated and joint
Segregated roles
Tasks, interests, and activities are clearly different
Joint roles
Many tasks, interests, and activities are shared
Beaujot argument
That we moved from complementary to companionate relationships
Complementary roles
Cast men primarily as earners or breadwinners and women involved primarily in the unpaid work of childcare and housework
Companionate roles
Breadwinning and caretaking
roles overlap
Double ghetto
Describes the marginalization of working women experience inside and outside the home
Gender strategy
Plan of action through which a person tried to solve problems at hand, given cultural notions of gender at play
Occupational segregation
Woman choose occupations that have greatest flexibility in terms of childcare-related work interruptions
Ethnic factor in Conjugal roles
- Segregated conjugal roles dominate
- Recent immigrants in some ethnic groups adhered more to segregated conjugal roles (e.g., South Asian immigrants)
- However, immigrants often slowly assimilate and adopt Western approach
Endogamy
Refers to marrying someone of the same ethnic, religious, or cultural group as oneself
Exogamy
Marrying outside of ones group
Residential schools
Created to keep Indigenous children away from the (assumed harmful) influence of their parents and communities
The Sixties Scoop
Removal of large numbers of Indigenous children from their families by government-affiliated agencies in the 1960s
Factors that cause families to change
- Industrialization
- Rise of digital technology
- Demographic changes
- Ideological differences
- Change in the status of women
- Changing relationship between private sphere of the family and public
- Government interest
- Societal recognition of different family forms
