FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Independent People, Time Point, Multiracial

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Skakoon- Sparling

Document Summary

Journal articles summary assignment: choose from a list of articles, 2-3 pages double spaced, 12pt tnr, no direct quote, use own words, use formal writing style, apa format. Last lecture: de ning the family can be complicated, families are diverse and there are many ways to understand, de nition of families should be understood and appreciated with culture and context. Families change in predictable ways over time: social dynamics perspective. Looks speci cally at how families changing over time and how they are adapting to normative life changes: births, deaths, milestones like children nishing school, stages. Phases of life that are di erent from the times before and after this time point. Stage in now is di erent from one in before. Typically have beginning and end point: usually have transition such as high school. Cohabiting with partner, even of when started living together. Turning 19, event but not end of stage.