traditional nuclear family and biological mothering

Question 1

what were caregivers doing at your age (financially,emotionally,professionally,personality)

Question 2

longer emerging adulthood: liminal phase of in-between-ness

Answer 2

1. precarious,instability,fluidity,flexebility,cost of living
2. not-yet-adults but no longer children
3. (new) roles of parents?
4. (new) roles of emerging adults ?
5. tension between freedom and constraints
6. conflicts?harmoney or both? in parents and childrens relationships

Question 3

liminal phase/emrging adulthood

Answer 3

• where does your relation with your parents stand between the extreme of full autonomy(independecy) or control(dependecy)?
• is this a new phenomena given the social and economic uncertainties of our time and the extended period of ‘‘emerging adulthood’’?
• is this exacerbated because mosy of us are in school and cannot work full time/part-time work?

Question 4

across time

Answer 4

• 1960: everyone should get married and have a family (not normal to be a single parent
• these belifs have been decresing, marriages have decresed
• common law (23%) has the same rights as married people (77%)
• never married parents is incresed
• divorced had incresed
• ## widowers has decredsednow only 50% of marriages has kids
  1960: 90-95% married and mostly with children by early to id 20’s

Question 5

1960 - 2011

Answer 5

• familys became smaller and people are living alone (more)

Question 6

1. Dorothu smith: The Standerd North American Family(SNAF)

Answer 6

• Materiality of everyday life
• all knowledge is knowledge from a particular standpoint
• SNAF = conception of family as a :
  1. legally married couples
  2. sharing a household
  3. traditional gender roles
  a) adult male (fully employed - public realm)
  b) adult female (primarly goal to care of husband,house,children even elders - private realm)

Question 7

nuclear family

Answer 7

1. subordination/aleination
2. (re)production and expansion

for dorathy smith

Question 8

how did we think of the nuclear family as the default family?

Answer 8

because it works as an ideological code.it organizes texts across site,audiences,policies and political practices

SNAF it is not identifiable with any particular family yet it is the default

• single parents are always compared to two parents household

Question 9

intact vs defective familis

Answer 9

• SNAF = intact
• anything other than SNAF= non-intect/defective

-single-parent family
-same- sex family
- female headed family

this can bring real life consequences such as descriminations

Question 10

mothering discourse

Question 11

force 1: Experts ———————- force 2: labour market

Question 12

waterman: biological/social mothering

Answer 12

• culturally recognized
  -giving birth
• vs unrecognized rites
• non-biological motherhood

Question 13

step mothers

Answer 13

are looked down upon

ex: cinderella

Question 14

trends in parenthood

Answer 14

1. average age of motherhood steadily rising
2. rates of tennage pregnancy is declining
3. multiple partner fertility
4. adoption
   international adoption on the rise
   b) trending
   c)white savior complex
   national adoptions often from marginalized groups-

Question 15

from otherness to sameness

Answer 15

biological motherning:
-at-one