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Households with a mother, father, and children are an increasing trend in Canada.

False (B)

What term is used to describe families where members are temporarily separated to secure better economic opportunities?

  • Transnational Families
  • Adopted families
  • Satellite families (correct)
  • Blended families

The term 'satellite children' was first used in the 1980s to describe children whose parents were immigrants to North America from _________.

Chinese

What factors contribute to the delayed 'child launch' from families?

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What term describes young adults who return to their parental homes due to debt, shifting employment, or marital changes?

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Divorced Canadians are more familiar with living in multi-generational households and pooling family resources.

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What term refers to the exploitation that can occur in marital relationships due to 'resource differentials'?

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What term describes a household that is shared by several generations or sets of kin?

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According to research by Whitehead and Perry, the functionalist idea of separate but complementary sex roles is commonly held among those with strong religious beliefs.

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Which theory does the life course approach expand on and revise in the study of life trajectories?

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Match the family function, as defined by George Murdock, with its description:

<p>Sexual = Regulates sexual behavior to maintain social order Economic = Provides resources necessary for survival Reproductive = Ensures the continuation of society through childbirth Educational = Passes on cultural knowledge and values to the next generation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Symbolic interactionism is used to explore economic forms and relationships.

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The _________ family, characterizing traditional agrarian communities, was imported intact to the New World.

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In the late 1800s, what concept, inspired by Queen Victoria, focused on gendered separate spheres for men and women?

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What practice is defined as newcomers resettling families, kin, and even entire villages complete with their social institutions?

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The 'factory laws' of the 1890s, while aiming to regulate labor, also inadvertently reinforced what family ideal?

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The Indian Act of 1876 aimed to protect Indigenous autonomy and self-governance.

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The sharp increase in birth rates, called the Baby Boom, began in _________.

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The 'Sixties Scoop' refers to what?

<p>A period during which Indigenous children were removed from their families and placed in non-Indigenous care. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who coined the term, 'the Sixties Scoop'?

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Sixties Scoop

A period in the 1960s and 1970s during which Indigenous children were removed from their families and placed in the care of non-Indigenous families.

Satellite families

Families where members live in Canada separated from children and spouses as economic strategy.

Velcro kids

Young adults who leave for work/school, but return due to debt, job shifts or changing marital status.

Extended family

Household shared by several generations or sets of kin.

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Household

Related/unrelated individuals who share a dwelling.

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Functionalism

Belief that families are institutions serving specific functions in society.

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Adaptive families

Families that adapt and initiate larger demographic, economic, cultural, and political trends

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Chain migration

Familial migration practice of resettling entire villages, complete with their social institutions.

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Indian Act

Act defining Indigenous people as wards, infantilizing them.

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The poor man's divorce

Situation where a man deserts his wife rather than seek official divorce.

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Reconstruction

Government support after WWII, to settle into a nostalgic version of domesticity.

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Intergenerational co-residence

Two or more generations living together in a family.

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Boomerang children

Adult children who return to live with their parents

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Age in place

Being able to live safely and independently with levels of health and social supports

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Gray divorce

Later-life divorce, becoming more common and acceptable.

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Complex stepfamily

Remarriage in mid-life involving blended families.

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Sandwich generation

Adults usually in mid-life, who provide care to their aging parents while supporting their own children

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New nuclear or new blended

Family forms with same-sex dyads forming the nucleus of the family unit.

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Home care

Provision of health/social services within own homes.

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Gender divisions of labour

The labour divisions according to gender

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Study Notes

  • On August 23, 2016, approximately 200 Indigenous people gathered in Toronto to protest the Sixties Scoop
  • The Sixties Scoop involved the removal of Indigenous children from their families during the 1960s and 1970s
  • Removed children were placed in the care of non-Indigenous families
  • A household with a mother, father, and children is not an increasing trend in Canada, as per recent Canadian Census data

  • Blended families are known as stepfamilies

  • Amanda Jette Knox's book "Love Lives Here" explores relationships with transgender family members

  • Adopted children are not an example of a transnational or multi-local family

Satellite Families

  • Satellite families are families where members are temporarily separated, typically to secure better economic opportunities
  • The term was first used in the 1980s to describe Chinese children whose parents immigrated to North America

Poverty in Canada

  • Racialized immigrants in Canada face poverty due to a combination of factors

Child Launch and Velcro Kids

  • Child Launch is when children leave their parental home, and is delayed by larger debt and changing economy
  • Velcro Kids are young adults who return to their parents' homes due to debt, job prospects, or marital status changes

Multi-Generational Households

  • Divorced Canadians are the exception to those familiar with living in multi-generational households and pooling family resources
  • A 2020 study by C. Chih et al. revealed health and well-being data on racialized trans and non-binary people in Canada

Relationships and Family

  • Resource differentials can produce relationship asymmetry, potentially leading to exploitation
  • An extended family is defined as a household shared by several generations or sets of kin
  • Economic circumstances can lead to extended family living arrangements

Household Definition

  • A household consists of related or unrelated individuals sharing a dwelling

Functionalist Idea

  • Whitehead and Perry found that the functionalist idea of separate but complementary sex roles is commonly held among those with strong religious beliefs

Life Course Approach

  • The life course approach expands on and revises the developmental theory

George Murdock on Nuclear Families

  • George Murdock concluded that the nuclear family serves four basic functions: sexual, economic, reproductive, and educational
  • Margaret Mead identified cross-cultural variations and stressed that labour divisions are learned behaviours.

Functionalism

  • Functionalism views families as institutions serving specific functions in society

Parsons on Families

  • Parsons (1955) argued men are suited to instrumental functions (family survival), while women are better suited to expressive functions

Engels and Marx on Social Life and Family

  • Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx believed economic organization affects social life and family relations

Marxists

  • Marxists aim to abolish private property, re-establish communism, and return to equitable relations between the sexes

Symbolic Interactionism

  • Symbolic interactionism doesn't explore economic forms and relationships

Comacchio

  • Comacchio described adaptive families adapting, and initiating larger demographic, economic, cultural, and political trends

Historic Centrality of Families

  • The historic centrality of families derives from functions including all of the above which are reproduction, production, socialization, maintenance, and regulation

Traditional Agrarian Communities

  • Stem/extended families characterized traditional agrarian communities, and were imported to the New World

Colonial Family Life

  • Early marriage and family formation signified adulthood in North American colonies

Colonial Women

  • In colonial times, women were subjected to pregnancy before marriage

Evolving Family Life in Canada

  • In the new nation of Canada, family life became less about economic subsistence and more about remaining respectable

The Cult of Domesticity

  • Queen Victoria inspired the cult of domesticity in the late 1800s, which focused on gendered separate spheres

The Rise of Modernization

  • Transportation and communication facilitated modernization

Chain Migration

  • Newcomers resettling with families, kin, and villages on the prairies created chain migration

Compulsory Education

  • Compulsory school legislation began in Ontario in 1871

Modernization and Family/Structural Change

  • Modernization caused the relationship of structural and familial change

Working-Class Families

  • Working-class families bore the brunt of exploitation and deprivation during rapid socio-economic changes

Impact of Factory Laws

  • "Factory laws" of the 1890s took jobs from women and children
  • The middle-class male breadwinner family ideal, was reinforced

The Indian Act

  • The Indian Act of 1876 defined Indigenous people as wards of the Crown

Marriage in the 1900s

  • In 1900, average marriage ages were 28 for men and 25 for women

The Century of the Child

  • The phrase "Century of the Child" marks the 20th century and the view that childhood was a vulnerable stage

The Poor Man's Divorce

  • "The poor man's divorce" refers to desertion instead of legal divorce in the early 1900s

Eugenics and Immigration

  • During the interwar years, eugenics supporters sought to restrict immigration

Family Allowances Act

  • The Family Allowances Act was Canada's first universal welfare measure, developed in 1944

1944 Act (Family Allowances Act)

  • The federal government provided mothers $5-8 per month for each child 16 and under

Reconstruction Era

  • Postwar reconstruction occurred after WWII and led Canadians to seek domesticity

The Baby Boom

  • The Baby Boom began in 1947

"Normal" Family

  • The 1950s mark what is considered the "golden age" of the so-called normal family

Italian Immigrants

  • Italians were among the largest immigrant groups in 1951

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

  • Post-WWII, the commitment to supporting the economy led to the establishment of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Launched and Mid-Life

  • Launched often refers to adults in their forties or fifties who have children about to be or already launched

Non-Transitioning

  • Non-transitioning is not evolving into culturally expected experiences like marriage and parenthood

Impact of Covid-19

  • COVID-19 magnified the need for cross-generational family support due to job loss and evictions

Average Life Expectancy: Canada

  • Average life expectancy in Canada is 82.3 (United Nations Development Programme, 2019)

Empty Nest Stage

  • The empty nest stage does not refer to a widow or widower co-residing with adult children

Intergenerational Co-residence

  • Intergenerational co-residence refers to two or more generations living together in a family

Highest Proportion of Intergenerational Co-residence

  • Census Metropolitan Areas with the highest proportion of intergenerational co-residence are Toronto and Oshawa

Mean Age

  • In 2016, the mean age of first birth for women in Canada was 29.2

Co-Longevity of Generations

  • The term marks the increasing period when members of different generations co-exist

The Term: Boomerang Generation

  • "Boomerang children" refers to adult children returning home to live with their parents after independence

Supports & Services

  • Being able to live safely and independently with necessary health and social supports/services is referred to as- age in place

Peak Earning

  • Mid-life parents provide financial and instrumental support for co-resident children

Recent Statistics

  • As per 2008 statistics, the average ages at first marriage: men - 29.6, women - 31.0

Return to Home

  • Return to the parental home is often because of several reasons, but not marriage

Serial Home Leavers

  • Serial home leavers leave their family home and return multiple times over life's course

Ambivalence Studies

  • Sociologists study the negotiation of contradictions in family relationships and their connections to social life: ambivalence

Gray Divorce

  • Later-life divorce or "silver divorce" is increasingly acceptable and common: gray divorce

Late-Life Divorce

  • Increases due to women, who initiate 40-60% of divorces after 40

Population Aging

  • Is characteristic of societies with rising median ages, due to increasing life expectancy, declining birth rates, and low immigration

Remarriage Risk

  • Research suggests that couples are at an increased risk of divorce compared to first marriage

Marrying Adults

  • Blending two families, when two adults remarry, is also known as complex stepfamily

Bi-Directional Flow

  • Bi-directional Flows applies in many categories except friends in times of need

Exchange Patterns

  • Family savers are when family members tend to become when challenges force a change in patterns of exchange within the family

Compression of Morbidity:

  • Having disability-free old age occurs for older wives and mid-life daughters

Support for Older Parents

  • The 3 main domains of older parents financial, instrumental, and emotional support

The Sandwich Generation

  • The sandwich generation consists of adults in mid-life who care for both aging parents and supporting their own children

Home Care

  • Provision of health and social services combining paid health with support from family/friends

Women & Ages

  • By age 85, women will outnumber men by more two to one

Family Forms

  • New nuclear is similar to new blended family forms when referring to same-sex dyads forming the nucleus of the family unit

Widowhood & Grief

  • The limited understanding of widowhood and long-term same-sex unions and marriages can have disenfranchised grief for surviving partners

Safety Nets

  • Cuts to social welfare have weakened safety nets for low-income as related to children wanting to return homes and early launches.

Canadian Employees for Caregivers Plan

  • It was launched in June of 2014 consisting of industry leaders from all size of businesses

Caregiving

  • Caregiving refers to the need of an individual who support assistance to complete his or her activities of daily living

Survey of Canadian Women & Labor

  • A significant sociological survey of Canadian women (1970s) showed womens' unpaid domestic work had been ignored

Growth of Industry

  • In the 1980s gender divisions of labor emerged due to a result of focus paid and unpaid work.

Terms & Standards

  • "Standard employment relationship" describes the 48 hours for 48 weeks for 48 years model and the male model of employment

Continual Workplace

  • When a worker has been involved in continual work, at or most of their working life

Growth of International Workforce Involving Women

  • The past several decades have witnessed a dramatic increase of women involved in workforce, for 2015 to 82%

Involvements With Children

  • There have been noticeable rate increase for employment and women. for 2015 which 69.5% employed and have children under age six.

Women with Children

  • In 2015 women that are currently without children under the age of 25 has been reported to hold jobs at 79.3%

Wage Gap

  • The gender wage gap for women workers in Canada varies between 69.7 cents and 88 cents for every dollar earned by men based on calculations

Gender Wage Gap Results

  • The gender wage gap results from many scenarios except when the scenario include "women are often paid more than men"

The CWF

  • Canadian Women's Foundation in 2017 suggests most employed women are in sectors that aren't management positions

Generational Care

  • Women more often care for both young and elderly compared to men- sandwich generation

What Classifies

  • Part-time jobs etc such as self-employed would fit non-standard employment

New Standard Employment

  • Not standard employment is also known as precarious employment.

Non-Standard

  • Includes part time, temporary, or self-employment.

Part Male Part Time Working

  • Only 13% of men were part-time compared to the higher percent of women.

Indigenous Women

  • In 2016 Indigenous women working fulltime wages earned 65 cents a dollar earned by no-Indigenous

What's Unpaid

  • Unpaid work is invisible, unoticed, and hard to measure

The degree if Household

  • According to Olivia Harris, the degree when House hold are oppressive and hard to follow varies for income level and varies from cooperation between households

Influences & Impact

  • Improved technology heavily impacts household tasks not not much impacts with caring actives for elders or children.

Researcher

  • Many of those who researcher that Life is is the number one systemic inequalities between women and men for women.

Since 2006

  • Since 2006 fathers who can take parental leave between 9 and 12

Community

  • Andrea Doucet names is, "community's responsibility" for community-based responsibility.

Unpaid Work

  • In 1970s unpaid work was mentioned as sociology

Gendered Household

  • Gendered Data has been collected for time, tasks, and responsibilities

Social Beliefs

  • refers for many beliefs about men and women role/relationships vary social

Studies of Household

  • According to Linda Carty (1994) women in low-income households have always always been

In House & Out House Work

  • The distinction between home and out works is to allocating everything inside to provide what is needed has been labelled by Household word Strat

Social Support

  • The term refers to activates for what is required ensuring daily survival

Covid-19

  • During covid 19 period, woman's employments went at 30 years

Percentage & Support

  • Parental Leave Has increased to 20% parents

Support from Cost

  • Benefits from well trained children costs a fraction of it.

Burden Unpaid

  • Women are all involved in the category from work that have unpaid

Inequality

  • Highest Inequality by the market- racialzed

Community

  • Canada has an example how a live in caregiver can be moved to someone new

Hourly Care

  • On average a women spends almost 4h for work compared to 2h for men

Population Decline

  • The way to counter population and continue to the declining birth rate is immigration

Based on Policy

  • System of Immigration by canada in 1867

Status

  • As defines or permanent resident (IRPA) there three

European Control

  • Following controls into 1970's non European

Urban Life Style

  • Big cities are represented by process

Immigrating

  • From places for big percent accounted from 25

Canada Arrival

  • Majority always arrive as fmailies

Express Entry

  • In 2015 Express entry was system to get government

The Majority

  • Immigrants economic class is the majority

Canada Data

  • 321,035 Is the amount of people immigrated to Canada

Canadian Population

  • At the time of 2016 is was46 for Toranto born in Canada

Well Know

  • Culture in Host is well knowing

Main Acculturation

  • One type of strategy is adaption

Sucess Community

  • Can work at many locations with big community adaption

Settlment

  • Settling in culture

Integration

  • All terms of family aren't of this one

Pre & Post Migration

  • Transnational migration family and what goes on

Who Attends

  • The ones who live on the other side while parents reside at homeland; parachute kids

People from Countries

  • In resettlement, countries experiences depression & stress from the refugee

Inform Training

  • Settlers often need assistance for housing

Wealth In Population

  • There's wealth but native individuals

Settlements

  • Newcomers receive settlemernts

Immigrants Times

  • Immigrant have hard time in white neighbors because their usually 4 times more likely

Boss Theorom

  • An uncertainty that immigrants experience and grief, loss is ambiguous.

Stay Who?

  • The father's stay

The Philippines

  • People are from Phil

Came and Didn't

  • Came and didn't have women

Cultural

  • How children and family go about things for culture values

Represent

  • Representation is 22% of those the represent

Parents

  • Family Reunification has those adults being parents

Immigration & Protection

  • All is explanation over Immigrant

Join

  • Immigrant face sponsor as the family

Studies

  • Culture teachers don't study parents

Integration Studies

  • Complex is studies as to why it has consenseus

Goal Aborigin

  • It's all about politics-assimilationist

Treaty Rights

  • A Indian act of treaties

All The Above

  • The reason you may experience discriminatory practice

Can Buy

  • Where the Sphere is false

Non Fem

  • By Smith activity

Haundenusaunne

  • It just long house

Clan Or Group

  • Defined in way impact others what is with clan

Government

  • There always communities

Sacred Law

  • Sacred Law early settlers only

Way of Marriage

  • Women and Indigenous get married

Blends

  • Culture Blends

Contact transfer

  • 1870 Land got transfered

Imperial to Help

  • Government made alliances and title

Territory

  • British owned everything

In 1867

  • Made Confderation

Confederation Follow

  • After nine years passed Indian act in 1876

Lose Of Status

  • Loss is what led to enfranchisement

First Nations were involved

  • There were numerous of amendmsnt

Government Control

  • Indians consider themselves as the Indian's Act

To not get removed can't is

  • Can't live away

What means Indian

  • Indian is name recorder as registrar's

Replaces act is

  • Nations culture as first replacement

Indian phrase

  • What he was trying to do by helping India's

Residential School

  • In 1831 the first time province opened Mohawk Ontario and Saskatchewan close 1996

Operated

  • There were churches being run in there -130

Settelment made largest.

  • It all in Candia history at 5 billions dollars

All Residence

  • Survivors had attend at 10k

Try To Attend

  • A community is how they attempt

Act For Welfare

  • Adding an act and to get 88 children.

The Number

  • There represents 34 percent

Sixties Scoop

  • The child being adopted wasn't right

The Sixties Scoop was coined By-

  • By Patrick Johnston always

Dependent on

  • What is depending on family individual always

Culture Home

  • Home culture has children Quebec

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