FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Individual And Group Rights, Health Canada, In Vitro Fertilisation
29 May 2018
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CHILDREN OR NO CHILDREN
• Sociological Perspectives of Having Children
o Structural functional
▪ Children=necessary to move society forward
o Developmental
▪ Children=developmental task of the family
o Conflict
▪ Social pressure to have kids
• Social script
o Motherhood myth
▪ Woe’s istit to e a o
▪ Kids of each sex=well rounded family
▪ Families with kids have more advantages
o Systems
▪ Kids or no kids creates different subsystems
o Ecological
▪ Wider social context
• Ifluees failies’ deisio to hae kids
• Determines experiences of families with kids
o Symbolic interaction
▪ Personal reasons
o Feminist
▪ Child earig=oe’s otrol oer reprodutio
• Canadian Fertility Rate
o Total fertility rate
▪ Total number of children a woman is expected to have
• Stable in Canada since 1993 @ 1.6
• Followed by slight increase
o Crude birth rate
▪ Number of births per 1000 population
• Drop
o Great depression
• Increase
o Baby boom (1946-1964)
o Family allowance program
o How to increase now
▪ Promote confident future
▪ Encourage immigration
▪ Un wed mom births
• Before 1974=illegitimate
• After 1974=out of wedlock
• Reasons why Family is Shrinking
o Medical advances
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▪ Infant mortality
• Decline
• No longer necessary to have a lot of kids
▪ Contraception
• More convenient and effective
o Law changes
▪ 1892-1969
• contraception illegal
o folk recipes
o illegal abortion
▪ 1969-
• contraception legal
o prevent illness
o treat disorders
• abortion legal
o Economic trends
▪ age women have first child
• boom=earlier
• bust=later
▪ History
• Great depression
o Small fam
• Boom after ww2
o Large fam
• 1970/1980 inflation and recession
o small fam
• late 20th century
o small fam
o why
▪ working women
▪ education
▪ children=expensive
• costs
o housing
o daycare
o food
o education
• depends on the region
o Psychosocial reasons
▪ Value of children framework
• 3 satisfactions
o Instrumental assistance
▪ Help in old age
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