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*child and youth suicide- homocide too
-5-14 years, homocide#4 and suicide#5
-15-24 years, Homocide#2 and suicide#3
*less children born wanted
*juvinille arrests rates increased
-not just bc more kids now
*increased # born out of wedlock
*more raised by unmarried parents |
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| Babies out of wedlock since Rowe vs Wade |
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*African Americans - 70% out of wedlock
- social suicide
*incentive: get more welfare if not married
*overall # avg is 40%
*whites = 33% |
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| positive changes in family |
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Definition
*20th century - great rise in life expectancy
*lower infant mortality
*less child mortality
*family violence seem down
*kids more likely to live with at least one parent
*fewer barren women
* low birth weight babies are more likely to survive |
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Changing but in a fine way
*positive changes outweigh negative ones
*liberal view: many new kinds of family's created which are good (gay)
*government involvement necessary
- to support single parents - day care, school younger
*other social adjustments are needed
*major view of sociologists and family scholars |
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| better off without family |
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Definition
radical view...
*radical anarchism - no family
- liberate children from family
*orthodox marxism - get rid of family and marriage
*homosexual/lesbian radicals - Betty Friedan, Kate Millet want to get rid of family and marriage |
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| family is disintergrating |
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Definition
*negative outcomes outweigh positives
*agress that new families are emergin but does not think its a good thing
*not iterested in gov involvement
*wants to promote traditional marriage and family |
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Kristin Luker ....
pro-life view |
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Traditional ...
*men and women = naturally different
*distinct marital roles = male provides, female is domestic
*chastity - sex is for marriage
*parenting and motherhood are natural
*children are more valuable than career and material things or accomplishment
*idea for child- 1 male and 1 female parent
*God and God given absolutes of morality |
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Kristin Luker...
Pro-choice |
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Liberal..
*natural sex diff are minimal and irrelevant
*no exact gender role - interchangable - too limiting
*sex can be recreational - special sometimes
*planning for kids is best lots of preparation and help
*balance children and self-fulfillment through career and material accomplishments
*mom and dad desirable but not necessary for well being
*mortality based on reason and human need - mostly unitarian and relative |
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| public opinion on marriage and family |
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Definition
*less faith in institution of marriage
*discouraged about future of marriage
*premartial cohabitation - more likely to end in divorce - true everywhere
* ppl believe getting married is fighting odds
*less stigma attached to divorxe
-moving towards idea of serial marriage |
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public opinion
stability of marraige |
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Definition
*cohabitation sky rocketing
-just as likely to have kids as married couples
-most break up without getting married
-more likely to get divorced than non-cohabiting
*skyrocketing divorce rates
-spiked in 60's
*dropping marriage rates - div. rate is dropping bc of this |
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