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Family sociologists - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Harkness- elston was right 25 years later- 3/4 dual income but women expected to do majority of housework
  - - - gender roles are a product of social construction, and these roles are not natural but defined and learned through gender socialisation
    - - Dalla Costa and James- "women are the slaves of the wage slaves"
    - - two dominant types of man:
        
        retributive man= tries to maintain traditional masculinity
        
        New Man= is more emotional and takes his role as a father as the most important
  - - - Henwood and Procter- all men expressed desire to be more involved, but the strain of providing cash over care made it difficult to achieve
      - Miller- first time fathers wanted to break from trad roles, but under stress of being parent slipped back into patriarchal roles
      - Dermott- whilst being a breadwinner is important, fathers now emphasise emotional openness and close relationship with children as most important to being a good father
    - - Dunne: studied 37 cohabiting lesbian couples- found that all the couples shared childcare and household chores equally
        
        shows that a positive negotiation of the DDL can be achieved
      - Gillespie- studied 25 women who chose to be childless- found women are drawn to being childless as they are seeing the benefits of increased freedoms, being better off financially and they see having children as a loss of ones self
  - - - more likely with younger couples, those with children, and those where the woman is in full time work
- - - - fox harding- housing policy favours those in conventional family e.g. single parents relieve worst social housing
- - - - international labour organisation- 1 in 7 children in work globally, 28% in sub-saharan Africa
      - Child soldiers international report (2008)- girl and boy soldiers involved in active conflict in 21 countries between 2004-2007
      - Unicef (2014) hidden in plain sight- 1 in 10 girls experience serious sexual violence, 9500 murders a year
    - - 2012-2013- 27% of children were offficially living in poverty
      - Brannen and Bhatti- Asian girls more strictly controlled than their brothers
      - Margo et al (2006)- richer parents can afford to purchase activities which further their Childs development
    - - Aries (1973)- Childhood did not exist as a separate status in Medieval times. Social construction of childhood linked to industrialization- children began to be seen as innocent and in need of protection.