SE 12-14 Flashcards

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  • many family forms that we associate with contemporary times have existed in Canada for hundreds of years
    e. g., l__e-parent families, b______d households
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e.g., lone-parent families, blended households

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  • beginning in 1960s, the ‘ordinary’ family began to be studied with focus on lived experience
    e. g., based on r__e, class, g____r
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e.g., based on race, class, gender

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-families have been and continue to be important to

individual, social and national i________s

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individual, social and national identities

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Families as Historical Actors
-family variations distinguished by race, culture and
ethnicity

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e.g., immigrant families, Catholic families in Quebec, Inuit families

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-families are not only p_____e recipients of changing ideas and practices, but are also historical a____s

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not only passive recipients of changing ideas and practices, but are also historical actors

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-the e_______l elements of family are as important to the individual and to society as the socio-e______c and
cultural functions

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-the emotional elements of family

the socio-economic and cultural functions

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-the ‘ideal family’ is s______y constructed to meet needs and objectives of given historical periods

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socially constructed to meet needs and objectives of given historical periods

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-the endurance of the p_________l, h____osexual male- breadwinner family of white E__o-Canadian middle-class -even though most Canadian families do not resemble this model

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-the endurance of the patriarchal, heterosexual male-
breadwinner family of white Euro-Canadian middle-class
-even though most Canadian families do not resemble this model

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-the centrality of families of early times derives from
their vital functions:
-r_______tion
-p_____tion

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-the centrality of families of early times derives from
their vital functions:
-reproduction
-production

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-the centrality of families of early times derives from 
their vital functions: 
-reproduction 
-production 
-s\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ion 
-m\_\_\_\_\_\_ance 
-r\_\_\_\_\_tion 
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-the centrality of families of early times derives from 
their vital functions: 
-socialization 
-maintenance 
-regulation 
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11
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-Aboriginal families in pre-contact times were the basis
of the community, but functioned c___________y for
political, economic and spiritual purpose

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functioned collectively for

political, economic and spiritual purpose

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12
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-The European colonists’ families were organized in

e______d family type but moved toward n_____r family type owing to the availability of cheap l__d

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extended family type but moved toward nuclear family

availability of cheap land

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13
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-The family was extremely important in earlier society
owing to the absence of external r________s and
p______g

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-The family was extremely important in earlier society
owing to the absence of external regulations and
policing

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14
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Survival depended on family:

  • every family member was expected to w__k
  • m_____e was economically necessary
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Survival depended on family:
expected to work
-marriage was economically necessary

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Survival depended on family:

  • childlessness was a b____n
  • adoption was c____nplace
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Survival depended on family:

  • childlessness was a burden
  • adoption was commonplace
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Industrialization

  • 1850s Canada; central to the modernization process
  • production moves from r___l family-farm to u___n factories
  • survival focus replaced with l_______e focus
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Industrialization

  • rural family-farm to urban factories
  • survival focus replaced with lifestyle focus
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Industrialization

  • Men: wage-l____r, business, p______s
  • Women: c__e-giving, domestic realm, child-r____g
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Industrialization

  • Men: wage-labour, business, politics
  • Women: care-giving, domestic realm, child-rearing
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—Families from Confederation - 1925
West expansion and increased s________t
-new, cheap land, i_________n & chain migration
-mandatory schooling began in Ontario in 1871

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—Families from Confederation - 1925
expansion and increased settlement
-new, cheap land, immigration & chain migration
-mandatory schooling began in Ontario in 1871

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-high rates of i____t and m______l mortality, orphanhood
and widowhood
-experienced disproportionately by the p__r

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-high rates of infant and maternal mortality, orphanhood
and widowhood
-experienced disproportionately by the poor
-10-15% (145-97/1,000) of all children born live would die in infancy
-0.5% (5-5/1,000) maternal mortality rate

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Confederation to 1925 :
Poor Family Interventions
Social Gospel Movement

-P________t middle-class movement aimed at alleviating many societal ills including: p_____y, a________m, infant mortality, prostitution, child labour and ‘racial d________n’

-informed by m______l feminism

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Confederation to 1925 :
Poor Family Interventions
Social Gospel Movement

-Protestant middle-class movement aimed at alleviating
many societal ills including: poverty, alcoholism, infant
mortality, prostitution, child labour and ‘racial
degeneration’

-informed by maternal_feminism

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21
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Confederation to 1925:
The Nation-Building Era Not all immigrant families welcome to Canada
-the focus on ‘d_______e immigrants’
-the focus on ‘a_________e’ immigrants

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Confederation to 1925:
The Nation-Building Era Not all immigrant families welcome to Canada

  • the focus on ‘desirable immigrants’
  • the focus on ‘assimilable’ immigrants
22
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The Western settlement program ignored Indigenous
peoples
-influx of w___e settlers threat to Indigenous families
-white missionary interference and r_________l schools
-p__________e principle devastating impact on Métis
families

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The Western settlement program ignored Indigenous
peoples
-influx of white settlers threat to Indigenous families
-residential schools
-patrilineage principle devastating impact on Métis
families

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Truth and Reconciliation
Indian Residential Schools began 1840s; 1920-federal government made it mandatory for children aged 7-15 to attend residential schools

The impetus for the schools: to “kill the I____n in the child”

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Truth and Reconciliation
Indian Residential Schools began 1840s; 1920-federal government made it mandatory for children aged 7-15 to attend residential schools

to “kill the Indian in the child”

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The Anglican, United, Presbyterian and Catholic churches were contracted by the government to run the schools

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The Anglican, United, Presbyterian and Catholic churches were contracted by the government to run the schools >130 residential schools in Canada; the last one closed in 1996

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First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were removed from their families and placed in residential schools

Most of the former students report experiencing intense suffering and e_______l, physical and s____l abuse In the schools

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First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were removed from their families and placed in residential schools

emotional, physical and sexual abuse In the schools

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The unresolved t___a suffered by these children has been passed on from generation to generation (the legacy of the residential school system)

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The unresolved trauma suffered by these children has been passed on from generation to generation (the legacy of the residential school system) inter generational trauma

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The Crisis In Family >1920
•Women being drawn away from m_____e and m_________d
•WWI robbed nation of many men of husband/father age

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The Crisis In Family >1920
•Women being drawn away from marriage and motherhood
•WWI robbed nation of many men of husband/father age

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The Crisis In Family >1920
•Spanish flu hit _0-_0 year olds the hardest
•Children of ill-health; burdens on the s___e
•Husband/ Father d_________g family

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The Crisis In Family >1920
•Spanish flu hit 20-40 year olds the hardest
•Children of ill-health; burdens on the state
•Husband/ Father disserting family

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The Crisis In Family >1920
•Concerns with “racial d_________n”
•Birth control/abortion/infanticide being
used/pursued/committed

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The Crisis In Family >1920
•Concerns with “racial degeneration”
•Birth control/abortion/infanticide being
used/pursued/committed

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Pronatalism
-the promotion and glorifying of p________d
(especially motherhood)
-calls for state-incentives to encourage m______e and
c___________g

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Pronatalism 
glorifying of parenthood 
(especially motherhood) 
-calls for state-incentives to encourage marriage and 
childbearing
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Pronatalism
-proponents call upon state to restrict access to
c___________n
-calls research on the family and for the
establishment of ‘expert informed’ education about
parenting (“s_______c parenting”)

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Pronatalism
restrict access to
contraception
-calls research on the family and for the
establishment of ‘expert informed’ education about
parenting (“scientific parenting”)

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Pronatalism
-focus on increasing the number of children born to
the ‘b____r stock’ families

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Pronatalism
-focus on increasing the number of children born to
the ‘better stock’ families

33
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The Crisis in Families
Interventions-continued 
Public Health Investment 
-improved s\_\_\_\_\_\_\_n 
-i\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_n 
-milk i\_\_\_\_\_\_\_n
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The Crisis in Families
Interventions-continued 
Public Health Investment 
-improved sanitation 
-immunization 
-milk inspection
34
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The Crisis in Families
Interventions-continued 
Public Health Investment 
-free well-baby c\_\_\_\_s/travelling n\_\_\_\_\_s 
-increased 'm\_\_\_\_\_e' regulation
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The Crisis in Families
Interventions-continued 
Public Health Investment 
-free well-baby clinics/travelling nurses 
-increased 'medicine' regulation
35
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The Crisis in Families
Interventions-continued 
Public Health Investment 
-school n\_\_\_e program 
-free v\_\_\_\_\_\_l disease treatment
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The Crisis in Families
Interventions-continued 
Public Health Investment 
-school nurse program 
-free venereal disease treatment
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Families and The Great Depression
Any momentum gained from the interventions introduced in the 1920s were halted by the D______n of the 1930s -—40% unemployment (crisis in male unemployment)

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Families and The Great Depression

halted by the Depression of the 1930’s

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Families and The Great Depression

-by 1937, birthrate at historical low: 2.6 children/family
-financial burden led to many families returning to
i_________t family model
-men were the focus of the minimal r_____f programs

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Families and The Great Depression

  • interdependent family model
  • minimal relief programs
38
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Families and “The New Deal”
L. M___h (1943): Report on Social Security for Canada

-although Unemployment Insurance was introduced in 1941, this was focused narrowly on men who were w_____t work

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Families and “The New Deal”
L. Marsh (1943): Report on Social Security for Canada

-although Unemployment Insurance was introduced in 1941, this was focused narrowly on men who were without work

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Families and “The New Deal”

-Marsh called for i___________t state
-programs to be geared toward not only those who
needed aid, but for all f_____s

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Families and “The New Deal”

  • Marsh called for interventionist state
  • all families
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Families and “The New Deal”

  • Family A______e Act introduced in 1944
  • a.k.a.: “Baby Bonus”
  • provided mothers $5-8/child/month Both UI and Mother’s Allowance upheld t_________l family model
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Families and “The New Deal”

  • Family Allowance Act introduced in 1944
  • a.k.a.: “Baby Bonus”
  • provided mothers $5-8/child/month Both UI and Mother’s Allowance upheld traditional family model
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Families *Mid-Century

  • post-war period characterized as the “g____n age” of the “normal” family:
  • husband/b________r
  • mother/h_______r
  • 3-4 well-behaved, intelligent healthy children
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Families *Mid-Century

  • post-war period characterized as the “golden age” of the “normal” family:
  • husband/breadwinner
  • mother/homemaker
  • 3-4 well-behaved, intelligent healthy children
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Families *Mid-Century

  • 1947-1965: The Baby Boom
  • e_____c boom
  • second wave of i______n
  • mostly family-sponsored
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Families *Mid-Century

  • 1947-1965: The Baby Boom
  • economic boom
  • second wave of immigration
  • mostly family-sponsored
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Families at Mid-Century

  • d__k-side of the golden age: many groups did not prosper
  • Betty F_____n: “the p_____m without a name”
  • unskilled, non-u______d workers
  • A________l families
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Families at Mid-Century

  • dark-side of the golden age: many groups did not prosper
  • Betty Friedan: “the problem without a name”
  • unskilled, non-unionized workers
  • Aboriginal families
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Families at Mid-Century

  • dark-side of the golden age: many groups did not prosper
  • A______n-Canadian families
  • u_______l francophe families in Quebec
  • families living in poorer provinces
  • w___n
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Families at Mid-Century

  • dark-side of the golden age: many groups did not prosper
  • African-Canadian families
  • unilingual francophone families in Quebec
  • families living in poorer provinces
  • women
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Families at Mid-Century
The Youth Problem
-Baby -boomers of late 1940s entered youth in 1960s
(‘hippies”)
-many rejected s_x and m_______e values of parents
-many rejected the social c________m

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Families at Mid-Century
The Youth Problem

  • many rejected sex and marriage values of parents
  • many rejected the social conservatism
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Families at Mid-Century
The Youth Problem

-many were critical of the g_________t
-increased p____________n of groups previously
marginalized based on class, race, sexual orientation
-the youth culture of the 1960s had tremendous impact on the family and especially w____n

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Families at Mid-Century
The Youth Problem

-many were critical of the government
-increased politicization of groups previously
marginalized based on class, race, sexual orientation
-the youth culture of the 1960s had tremendous impact on the family and especially women

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1960s: The Changing Family
1962-Birth Control Pill available
-for purposes of cycle regulation only
1968-Divorce Act

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1960s: The Changing Family

1962-Birth Control Pill available
-for purposes of cycle regulation only
1968-Divorce Act

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1960s: The Changing Family
1969- Abortion made legal (with restrictions)
S____y decriminalized
Birth Control and c____________n decriminalized

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1960s: The Changing Family

1969- Abortion made legal (with restrictions)
Sodomy decriminalized
Birth Control and contraception decriminalized

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Families at the-Millennium

  • c_______s by choice
  • introduction of maternity and p______l leave (1990s)
  • 80% of mothers worked outside the h__e (2000)
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Families at the-Millennium

  • childless by choice
  • introduction of maternity and parental leave (1990s)
  • 80% of mothers worked outside the home (2000)
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Families at the-Millennium

  • increased involvement of f______s in parenting
  • Civil Marriage Act (2005)
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Families at the-Millennium

  • increased involvement of fathers in parenting
  • Civil Marriage Act (2005)
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Families at the-Millennium
-85% of Canadians lived in Census Family (2006)
but d______d % of married couples
-the idealized male breadwinner family is the m______y
experience

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Families at the-Millennium
-85% of Canadians lived in Census Family (2006)
but decreased % of married couples
-the idealized male breadwinner family is the minority
experience