1. Ch. 11- The changing family
The industrial revolution
Father removed from home
Children as economic liabilities
Demand for education
Lower birth rates
City life
Loss of family functions

2. Women’s family roles
Greater equality
Increased divorce
Life expectancy
The “quiet revolution”
Is there a social problem today?

3. Family terms Family/household Nuclear/extended family
Family of orientation
Family of procreation

4. Indicators the family is in trouble Divorce statistics
The children of divorce
Remarriage rate
Births to unmarried women
Single parent families
Ethnic/racial differences
Family violence

5. Symbolic interactionism
Expectations in marriage
Personality importance in choosing spouse
Overloaded institution
Love as the reason for marriage
Ideas about children
Ideas about parenting

6. Changing marital roles
Perception of alternatives
Attitudes towards divorce
Legal grounds for divorce

7. Functionalism Functions of the family Economic production
Socialization of kids
Care of the sick and aged
Recreation
Control of sexuality
Reproduction
Many lost functions…

8. Conflict perspective Inequality of men and women
Men have control/power
Struggle between the sexes contintues today
Arlie Hochschild’s research
The “Second Shift”
His and Her marriage

9. Today’s changing family
Cohabitation
Almost 9X more common today than 30 yrs ago
Why?
Increasing age at first marriage
Remaining single
Unmarried mothers

10. Childlessness
By nature or by choice
Family violence
Child abuse
Parent abuse
Spouse battering
SES differences
Why do women stay?

11. Sexual abuse
Marital rape
Incest
Old age and widowhood
Decline of the family?
Highest marriage rates in history
“Middletown” research
Marital satisfaction findings