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Marriage & Family

Marriage & Family. Marriage & Family. What is a family ? What are the rights, privileges, obligations?. Marriage & Family. What is a family ? People who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption Nuclear or Extended Family of orientation Family of procreation.

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Marriage & Family

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  1. Marriage & Family

  2. Marriage & Family • What is a family? • What are the rights, privileges, obligations?

  3. Marriage & Family • What is a family? • People who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption • Nuclear or Extended • Family of orientation • Family of procreation

  4. Surrogate mothers • Is a surrogate mother, who is paid to gestate the unborn child, selling her baby? • If for some reason no one wants the child, such as if it is born with a severe handicap, then who is responsible? • Is the gestational mother truly the legal mother, as is the legal presumption, even if she is not genetically related to it?

  5. Surrogate mothers • Do women have the right to control their own bodies, even if it means choosing to be breeding machines or, as Professor Sidney Callan put it, "uterus rentals"? Or is this the ultimate form of female exploitation in a capitalist economy where nearly all traditional family activities have become fair-game commodities for sale?

  6. Marriage & Family • Functions of the family • Economic production • Socialization of children • Care of the sick and aged • Recreation • Reproduction

  7. Marriage & Family • Marriage • A group’s approved mating arrangements • Often marked by a public ritual

  8. Marriage & Family • Establish societal patterns • Mate selection • Endogamy • Exogamy • Incest Taboo • Helps families avoid role confusion • Extends social networks • Maintain strong gene pool

  9. Marriage & Family • Establish societal patterns • Mate selection • Endogamy • Exogamy • Descent • Bilateral, matrilineal, patrilineal • Inheritance • How to pass property from one generation to the next? • Authority

  10. The Family Life Cycle • Romantic love • What does ‘love’ mean? • Marriage • Social channels to marriage • Homogamy • Arranged marriage

  11. Balancing Work and Family in the US • Institutional challenges for parents • Corporate culture that assumes workers have no competing responsibilities • The “glass ceiling” • The “Mommy track”

  12. Balancing Work and Family in the US • Institutional challenges for parents • Corporate culture that assumes workers have no competing responsibilities • Public policies that do not support families • Family leave policies: Some workers have limited rights to unpaid leave, paid leave is offered in only 5 states for mothers, 1 state for fathers • No benefits for part-time workers • No public child care

  13. The Family Life Cycle • Childbirth & Child Rearing • How are kids taken care of? • Daycare • Nannies • Stay-at-home parent • Relative

  14. Balancing Work and Family in the US • The “Second Shift” • In households where both parents work, who does the housework? • Largely, it’s women

  15. The Family Life Cycle • Empty Nest • Last child leaves home • ‘Adultolescents’ • Adult children returning home to live with parents

  16. Trends in US Families • Postponing marriage and childbirth • Cohabitation • Unmarried mothers • Grandparents as parents • The sandwich generation

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