SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Sandwich Generation, Infertility

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Traditional family - heterosexual and kids - even adoption: adoption used to be looked down upon. Extended family - multiple generations living together: adult siblings with spouses and kids - common outside of western cultures, common in western culture - take in of elderly parents. Adult women - sandwiched between caring for parents and caring for their families: sandwich generation - usually women. In other cultures - extended families is part of cultural traditions and norms. Census family - more inclusive - includes same sex parents - married/cohabiting : common law are not looked down upon as it was in the past. Different between common law and marriage - piece of paper: but law protects common law relationship as well. Marriage - formal paperwork for divorce - assets divide and maintence for children: marriage is formally dissolved and have 30 days to test it.