Demographics Lecture 1
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The document discusses how family forms have changed over time in response to economic and cultural factors. It describes families shifting from multigenerational to nuclear family structures during periods like colonial times and post-WWII suburbanization. The modern concept of age and generations divided families, while marriage transitioned from an economic institution to one based more on love and personal choice. Changing family structures may impact children in various ways.
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Demographics Lecture 1
- 1. The Family: From Multigenerational to Nuclear
- 2. Family forms change over time, often in response to changing economic conditions but also in response to changing cultural ideas.
- 7. Age Consciousness • The rise of birthday parties • School became graded by age • Families divided into generations • Age qualifications
- 27. Marriage: From Economics to Love
- 29. WWII and Suburbanization • During the Cold War, new housing developments with small block houses and an ideological emphasis on home ownership encouraged couples to live in two-generation nuclear-family households.
- 35. Changing Family Structure • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwikvo6 EZiQ
- 36. PRIMARY SOURCES: MILLENNIALS, MARRIAGE, AND SHACKING UP
- 37. Questions to Ponder • How do their parents’ reasons for marrying affect children? • How to changing family forms affect children? • What role should we to assign the wellbeing of children in government policing of family forms? (i.e. divorce, gay marriage, etc.)