SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Nuclear Family, Therapeutic Abortion, Total Fertility Rate
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Women would be houswives didn"t work. Women would vote as same as her husband in order to not cancel out the voting. In the course of a generation, the world of canadian families changed from structurally tight to structurally loose. When people speak of decline of the family , they are often referring to the nuclear family: it comprises two married, opposite-sex parents and their biological children who share the same residence. Nuclear families normally function as traditional nuclear family: A nuclear family in which the wife works in the home without pay while the husband works outside the home for money. Nowadays in contemporary societies, families come in many different forms. E. g. single parent families, families without children, same-sex couple households that may or may not have children, families where partners are not legally married to one another, step-parent.
