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Chapter 10
The Changing Family
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Figure 10-1: Employment Status of Married Women with Children
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Table 10-1: Percentage of Children Living in Single-Parent Families
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Percentage Who Say They Did the Following Because of the Recession
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Figure 10-2: Median Age at First Marriage for Men and Women
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Postponement of Marriage
• Americans are getting married later in life
• Median age for women is 25.8 years
• Median age for men is 27.1 years
• Many are postponing marriage for:– Educational goals– Career goals
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Changing Norms of Parenthood
• Births to Unmarried Women– Stigma attached to out-of-wedlock births has
declined in society
• Teenage Pregnancy– Teenage fertility and childbearing rates have
fallen in the United States
• Gay and Lesbian Families
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Changing Norms of Parenthood
• Gay and lesbian couples often face a number of obstacles
• One of these issues is the legal status of gay marriages and the rights it accords to married couples
• Obstacles to adopting and rearing children
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Figure 10-3: Birthrates for Females Ages 15–17
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Figure 10-4: Birthrates by State for Ages 15–19 (per 1,000 women)
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Figure 10-5: New Sheltered Clients, by Household Type: April–June 2009
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Figure 10-6: Low-Paid Workers with Severe Housing Cost Burdens
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Family Violence
• Child Abuse– Parents who are demanding and have
unrealistic expectations of what a child can do
• Spouse Abuse– Rate of reported abuse among poor is related
in part to contact with agencies identifying • Abuse that goes hidden in other social classes
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Social Policy
• Future Prospects
• Abstinence Only, Abstinence Not– Congress is preparing to cut the funding for
so-called abstinence only programs– It is unlikely that there will be Federal support
for increased access to birth control – Or sex education directed toward teenagers