Overview
part 1) For this discussion please start by reviewing the chart in the DQ7 graph content folder. This chart documents the changes from 1965 to 2011 in the average number of hours per week spent on paid work, housework, and childcare by mothers and fathers. Please identify and describe one trend in the chart that you find particularly interesting. Drawing on your knowledge of modern patterns in marriage, parenthood, work and family life, discuss the trend you described, paying particular attention to the social reasons behind it and the consequences of these changes for modern parenthood.
Based on chapter. 7 part 2) question 1- According to the authors, increasingly new families are created closer to grandparents, kin, and friends with babies the same age. True or False? Question 2- Reading 14 New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers, Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan
The authors argue that contrary to the ‘decline of family values’ perspective, there is plenty of distress and dysfunction in the idealized, nuclear family form. What do they mean?
Question 3- Reading 15 Daddy, Baby; Mommy, Maybe: Low-Income Urban Fathers and ‘The Package Deal’ of Family Life Katheryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Joanna Miranda Reed
Economically disadvantaged fathers are much more likely to marry before having children than middle-class fathers are. True or false?
Question 4- Reading 15 Daddy, Baby; Mommy, Maybe: Low-Income Urban Fathers and ‘The Package Deal’ of Family Life Katheryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Joanna Miranda Reed
What is the ‘package deal’ conception of family life?