SOC244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unintended Pregnancy, Surrogacy, Assisted Human Reproduction Act
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Test 1: 50 mcq, 6 short/long answers, numbers are not important must know the pattern (eg. linear, family size becoming smaller), questions are conceptual, focus on bold italics on text, focus on canadian family patterns. Social pressures to have children: our society has a pronatalist bias: having children is taken for granted. Social pressure, social norm even in western society even there is a lot of people who do not want to have kids. Without all four, way no other experience can. the family is felt to be incomplete: measure: # of live birth, still birth not counted. Number of births in canada: went up in 2nd war war, decline after, children may be born to married or unmarried. Total fertility rate in canada: teenager fertility is lower than adult women, delay of child bearing over years, how many children a women will have through her fertile years, pattern indicates family size is shrinking.
