SOC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Childlessness, Obstetrics And Gynaecology, Petri Dish
7 Feb 2017
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Women & men have different views of reproduction. Push the boundaries of fixed biologic reproductive life spans. Politics, religiously, economically change the way of adoption. Reproductive life span 30-44 = times when you are fertile (period) Age at which girls begin menstruation (secondary sex characteristics) has begun to go down. Avg age go down (12. 8 ~ used to be 15) - impacted by color, social class. Something that is going on that is cultural. Determined by the mother carrying them - what she"s eating, her physical health. Older men who father - kids have higher chance of schizophrenia & adhd. What it means to make a family. Give birth later in life, donated egg/sperm, select genes, form families that weren"t legal before. Surrogate, petri dish ~ using a medium to help form a family. Having children = normative (expected), exciting, way to share families, pass lineage. Celebrating birth - laws protecting children, parties, time off.
