PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Artificial Insemination, Surrogacy, Stepfamily
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Influence interactions among family members: affect family routines and norms, affect children"s emotional well-being. More children live with lone or unmarried parents. 14% of children were living with common-law parents. 22% of children were living with lone parents: over 1/3rd of the aboriginal children live in a lone-parent household compared with 17% for nonaboriginal children. Single parents have less time to devote to children. First-time parents are older than in the past. Average age when women had their first child was 23. 6 years in 1961, as opposed to 28. 5 years in 2011. Research shows men who become father after age 30 tend to be more: In 2013, in canada 3% babies were born by mothers between 15 -19. A number of factors have been identified in reducing the risk of teenage pregnancy. Early motherhood is associated with a number of disadvantages. In 2011, almost 5% of all children under 14 years of age in canada live with a grandparent.
