Chapter 10 Flashcards
Nuclear Family
parent/parents w/ children
Simple Households
unreleated adults w/ or without children
Nine changes in the canadian family
- marriage decrease, chohabitation increase
- rising age of first marriage
- more divorces overall, rate falling
- more women having children in 30’s
- below replacement rate
- equal couple with/without children
- children leaving home at later age
- more lone partent families
- more people living alone
complex households
two/or more related adults living together
Fecundity
the physical ability to concieve
total fertility rate
number of children women between ages 15-49 will have over their life
replacement rate
number of children the average women must bear to have population contine at current rate
cluttered nest and its causes
adult children continuing to live at home, caused by prolonged education, returning after post secondary, loving costs, later marriage age
Quebecs differances
highest cohabitaiton rate, lowest marriage rate, highest divorce rate
Conjugal (marital) roles
distinctive roles of husband & wife that result from labour division
(elizabeth) Bott hypothesis, (2 types)
- segregated: tasks, interests, activites clearly different
2. Joint: ^ shared
Beasujot on the change of roles, moving from 1 to 2
- complementary roles: (segregated) men-primary earners, women-children/home
- companionate: (joint) overlaping roles
Double Burden/Double shift
married women still doing more unpaid work at home then married men
Occupational segregation
encouraged by childcare responsibilites, women chosing careers that allow for flexibility of childcare
Nakhaie - Gender strategy
plan of action, person tries to solve problems at hand given cultural notions of gender at play