Family diversity- Child bearing Flashcards
What is childbearing?
Having children
What is childrearing?
Raising children
Whiting on childbearing?
The 2 child family remains the most common and has done for 70 yrs
Hirsch on childbearing?
Each child costs a couple nearly £154,000 by the time there 18
Childbearing facts?
-Over half of all babies are born to mothers over 30
-More women are choosing to remain childless
-People from w/c are not more likely to have more children, families with 3 or more children are evenly spread amongst all socio-economic groups
-Black and asian families are more likely to have more children, and therefore have larger families
Why are more women wanting to remain childless?
Women don’t want the triple shift
Women want to focus on their career, individualism
-Less societal pressure on women to conceive
-Contraception
-Craig (mother penalty)
How does society view women that want to remain childless?
Women are career thirsty
Attacked if they don’t want children
If they have miscarriage sympathy
-Men don’t like women who don’t want children
-Assume its selfish
Problems of women not wanting children in relationship?
Likelihood of less relationship as you might want different things
Tensions between men and women
Men might want children women might not causing irretrievable breakdown of marriage
PM believe conflict will occur
What is the life course?
This life course is made up of several stage: birth, early childhood, infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood, middle age, old age and death
Heath and life cycle?
Described how young people are less likely to follow the traditional route of living at home, leaving school, going into a job or higher education then settling down into married relationships in their own homes
Heath- what are adult kids?
Finished their education and are are in their working years but still like with their parents as they cant afford rent
Health- Kippers?
People stay at home through choice not that they cant afford it its just ‘kids in patients pockets’ cheaper and more convenient
May erode parents planned retirement fund 1/10 men 1/20 women
Heath- The clipped wing generation?
Children who stay at home as they cant afford to move out
Heath- shared household?
People living in houses who aren’t in relationships then do form them
Transition period between youth and adult
-Living alone, moving in, living in shared house with friend
Heath- families of choice?
People choose to live with family’s of birth or friends
Increasing due to high cost of buying and renting a house
What does pm stacey say?
Family life is not about living in a static and ideal type of family structure
A number of life events can change your experiences of family life creating family diversity
