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Family
Structures
SAME-SEX COUPLES
- Gay or lesbian couples
- With or without children
- Numbers of same-sex couples: choose to adopt children, become foster parents, or use surrogacy services => GROW
CHILDLESS FAMILIES
- A couple: no children.
- One or both partners: biologically unable to have/ feel they cannot afford to have / not be adequate parents/,do not want to bring children into a world that they view as violent, war-ridden, or an environmental disaster
- Still other couples simply do not want a child (feel their life is satisfying)
SANDWICH GENERATION
- Consists: middle-aged parents (aging parents & grown children simultaneously living with them)
EXTENDED FAMILIES
- Household: includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grown-up children
- Common with several generations sharing in the economic, household and child rearing activities
CO-OPERATIVE FAMILIES
- Two divorced/ single parents who move in together
- Share expenses, housework & the task of raising the kids
- Can make good: economic sense at a time when income may be reduced
BLENDED FAMILIES
- Biological father or mother/ a step-mother/father
- Children: one or both of the parents's
- Relationship: by marriage and not by blood
- Some families: the nonbiological parent -> adopt his or her stepchild(ren)
- The couple: may decide -> have children of their own.
INSTITUTIONAL FAMILIES
- Totally unrelated people: live together in a common facility or institution
SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
- One parent: raises his/her children
- Come due to separation, divorce, death/ the birth of a child to an unmarried parent
AFFINITY FAMILIES
- People with or without blood or legal ties that feel they belong together.
THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
- Father, mother & their children.
- Include both biological and adopted children
- No parent has children from a previous marriage
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OTHERS
POSTPONED PARENTHOOD
- Decides: not have children until the mother is in her thirties or forties
- Want to accomplish certain personal goals before they have children
- Some want: spend time together as a couple to ensure => each partner is committed and mature & that relationship is stable => ready for the challenge of parenthood
._COMMUTER FAMILY
- One spouse works: away from home during the week or for weeks at a time, commuting back and forth whenever possible.
Trends
Boomerang
- Increasing trend
- Occurs when young adults leave home, but come back, often multiple times.
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Common-Law
- The fastest growing family type in Canada
- Tripled between 1981 and 2001
Smaller families
- The average family size in Canada: on a downward track
- The average household size in 2006: 2.5 persons.
- The increase in single-person households as well as couples living without children
Others
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Lone-parent families
- Accounted for 25% of Canadian Families (2004)
- Up from 21% in 1994.
Same-sex couples
- Over 45,000 same-sex couples in Canada (2006)
- 17% of these were married.
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Increased immigration
- 2006: ~almost 20% of Canadian residents were born in another country.
- Immigration growth (2001 -> 2006): 4 times higher than Canadian-born growth
Changing women’s roles
- Since the 1960s (as revolutionary)
- A growing number of women are the primary earners in their families
- 2007: 28% of women in dual-income unions earned > their partners
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Maslow's Hierarchy
Love/belonging
Family, friends, lovers, partners, neighborhoods, supporters, etc.
Esteem
Confidence, respect by others, respect others, achievements, patient, success, etc.
Safety
Human rights, security of own body, health property, strength
Self - actualization
Creativity, morality, spontaneity, problem solving, etc.
Physiological
Breathing, food, water, sleep, sex, survival, etc.
Definition
- Combination of two or more persons
- Bound together over time
- By ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption/placement
- Together, assume responsibilities