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Family (Trends in Modern families (Single mother households (More likely…
Family
Trends in Modern families
Marriage
Later in life
Increase in same sex marriage
Multigenerational housholds
Increase in working mothers
Increase in children outside of marriage
Single mother households
More likely to have
Unstable housing
Poverty
Be unemployed
Generally single mothers
Lower socioeconomic class
Less educated
Younger
Separates lower and middle class
90% of women with degrees don't have children before marriage
Increase in divorce
Lower as you move higher in class
Fatherhood
Inner city fatherhood
Serial fatherhood
When they fail just try again with a different child
Fatherhood reinterpreted
Moral guidance
Spend time with the kids
Act as a friend
Consequences
Not fully held accountable
Less cognitive dissonance with failing
Bad fathers not forced to change
Ideals
Provide financially
Discipline children
Moral guide
Perspectives
Structural functional
Socilization of children
Economic stability
Sexual control
Reproduction
Care of the elderly
Symbolic interactionalist
Families as microcultures
Culture maintained through
Family stories
Family traditions
Feminist perspective
Unequal division of caring activities
Undervaluing of caring monetarily