Chapter 13: Family Paths and Types

Increasing diversity in the structure of American families and in the pathways to family formation and outcomes. Nuclear families were the most common, married early, and had high numbers of children. In today's society family life has become more diverse. Extended households, single-parent families, individuals living alone, and groups of unrelated individuals has become more common.

Chapter 13: Responses to Family Change

Family change is happening all around the United States. The change that we make can be either good or bad. Change is okay to have and it is what shapes us in society. No matter what change is coming. It is changing in our culture, our values, morals, etc.

Chapter 13: Age Structure

Age Structure is the relative number of people of each age in a population. The most common way of visualizing the age structure is with a population pyramid. The age structure has molded our world to see if a lot of children are being born and people don't live to be very old or vice versa. One is shaped as a pyramid which is how it got its name and the other like a pillar.

Chapter 13: Religion

Religious identity is important for families because traditions and practices associated with religion affect how people behave and interact with families. Every stage of family life such as birth, marriage, parents, and end of life. This is a Buddist Temple I visited in Hawaii and was interesting on how they practiced their religion and how it takes place in their lives.

Chapter 13: Social Diversity

Social Diversity is the condition of difference in experiences or characteristics of people in a population. It depends on the number of categories we use to describe people. We see the differences in diversity all around the world.

Chapter 11: Paid Work

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, men increasingly working away from home, in urban factories and offices, while women worked in increasingly isolation at home without pay. My dad in the family was the only one that had a steady income while my mom stayed at home and made sure the kids were fed and the house was clean. Not until later my mom started working and brought more money into the household.

Chapter 11: Gender Division of Labor

Gender Division of Labor is the allocation of work between men and women in society. Women at home do the nursing, child care, teaching, food service, and cleaning. In the paid market jobs are very different. Here at home I mow the lawn which is heavy work while the girls in my family do the cleaning and cooking inside the household.