FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Assisted Human Reproduction Act, Total Fertility Rate, Birth Rate

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Olga Sutherland

Document Summary

Unit 4 part 1: understanding relationships in the family. Structural functionalists focus on having children as a necessary function of families in perpetuating society. The developmental approach tends to see having children as a developmental task of families. Conflict theorists suggest that the social pressure to have children is a reflection of the prevailing ideology. The systems theory looks at how the decision to have children creates different subsystems that affect the family dynamic. The ecological approach looks at ho(cid:449) the (cid:449)ide(cid:396) so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es a fa(cid:373)il(cid:455)"s decision to have children. Symbolic interactionalists focus on personal reasons for the decision. Feminist theorists te(cid:374)d to stud(cid:455) (cid:272)hild (cid:271)ea(cid:396)i(cid:374)g as a(cid:374) issue (cid:396)efle(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol over reproduction. Although the pressure to have children is stronger than ever, the size of canadian families have been shrinking. Total fertility rate: the average number of births per woman over the course of her reproductive life. Crude birth rate: the number of births per 1000 population.