SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Attachment Theory, Antinatalism, Elderly Care
Week 6- parenting
Assisted fertility
• We live in a pro-natalist society
o People expect all women to bear children; women who are infertile face stigma
o Many women seek infertility treatments at high personal and financial costs
• Success rates of assisted fertility fall sharply with age, yet multiple births are not
uncommon
o Success rates have increased since 2010 and the incidence of multiple births has
decreased
• We have strict laws for assisted fertility
• How is Canada anti-natalist
o Culturally not reproducing
o We are dead last in family policy for the developed countries
o Normative
o Social acceptance
• Socially constructed
o Society creates it
o It is not natural
o Meanings vary from society to society
▪ Parenting styles
▪ Good or bad parenting exist because we say so
o Meanings change overtime
o Variation within society
Parenting and life course concerns
• Timing
o Women adopt strategies to time marriage and childbirth to fit with their
education/career
• Teenagers
o Teenage years can be difficult and have long lasting negative impact of
parent/child relationships
o Poor parenting skills
o More depressed, can lead to child poverty
• Eldercare
o Provokes ambivalence in adult children, with women providing more elder care
than men
• Women who have children late they are in the sandwich years where they take care of
their children and take care of the elders
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