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Modern Parenting Choices: Trends and Influences

Explore the shifting landscape of parenting decisions in the United States, from fertility trends to emerging options like remaining childless or adopting. Understand the costs, emotional significance, and societal impacts of different paths to parenthood.

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Modern Parenting Choices: Trends and Influences

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  1. Chapter 12To Parent or Not to Parent • Fertility Trends in the United Sates • The Decision to Parent or Not to parent • Three Emerging Options • Preventing Pregnancy: History and Issues

  2. Chapter 12To Parent or Not to Parent • Pregnancy Outside Marriage • Abortion • Involuntary Infertility and Reproductive Technology • Adoption • Deciding to Relinquish a Baby

  3. Children’s Value to Parents • Give their parents lives meaning and are associated with having a close family unit. • Emotional significance has increased as their economic value has declined. • Potential means of support when parents are unable to care for themselves. • Add liveliness to a household.

  4. Costs of Having Children • Cost of raising a child born in 2000 to the age of 18, including college - $165,630. • Parents forego income and investment when they raise their children. • Parents work additional hours and have less leisure time.

  5. Three Emerging Options • Choosing to remain childless • Postponing parenthood • Having a one-child family

  6. Pregnancy Outside Marriage • 40% of total births to unmarried women in 1999 were to white mothers. • In 2000, 69% of African American births, 43% of Hispanic births, and 22% of non-Hispanic white births occurred outside marriage.

  7. Teen Pregnancy • In 2,000, 12% of all births were to teen mothers. • 79% of teen births occur outside of marriage. • Teen birth rate is half of what it was at peak in 1957.

  8. Adoption • There is no federal agency that collects data for adoption statistics. • About 2% of 2 parent families contain adopted children.

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