SOC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Heterosexuality, Stepfamily, Engagement
21 Nov 2020
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Transitions in family life: are not new to human society. Immigration and high mortality rates resulted in family transitions: transitions involve, second or subsequent starts at families and family relationships, various processes from flight from abuse to personal reinvention. Family transitions in the past: preindustrial society labour required for households to survive remarriage/reconstituted families common, adoption and fostering was common. In past, reconstituted or blended families due to parental death; today it is the result of divorce or relationship breakdown. Family transitions past and present: immigrants and transnational families. Immigration experience: strengthen or strain family relationships, challenge or undermine parent child relationships redefine relations between spouses, no singular immigrant experience, transnational families families of immediate and extended kin, who are separated geographically. Delayed home-leaving: young adults today more likely to remain at home living with parents. Boomerang kids move back into the parental home in adulthood: rise in delayed home leaving tied to long-term decline cohabitating.
