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Parents encourage their child to obey, aiding capitalism (Radical Psychiatrist)
The nuclear family props up capitalism by giving men an outlet at home
Women are the slaves of wage slaves
Women are takers of ****
Berger's use of paintings of children (secondary data) was unreliable and unrepresentative
Childhood became a set period to the age of 14 when the Fischer Act was implemented in 1918
People have fewer children these days as the infant mortality rate is declining
Parents are too liberal these days and don't smack or cane (Conventional Theorist)
Parents use technology to 'babysit' their children
Children are too influenced by the media and know too much - sexualization etc
Children are constructive contributers to family life (Interactionist)
Used paintings to show that children used to be just 'mini adults'
Claimed that childhood is a recent invention and that childhood did not used to exist
Children aged 5-10 had to now go to school
Parents are cash rich and time poor so spend money on children out of guilt
Only 15% of men do housework in the week and only 25% have high participation in childcare
Men express greater satisfaction with their marriages, and do not realise when their wives feel lonely
Confirmed Oakley's findings - found that fewer than 20% of men take a major childcare role
Many women don't report domestic violence due to fear
Found that in 17 married couples, women still did the majority of housework
Men are more likely to make the important decisions in the family
Distinguished between joint and segregated conjugal roles
Men are the main caregiver for children in only 4% of families
Confirmed the March of Progress idea and found that men are taking on more housework over time
Found that women in lesbian couples were more likely to do equal amounts of housework and share childcare
Decision making is more joint in the middle classes
If women work, men do more around the house but it's still not equal
Domestic violence causes psychological damage
When a man becomes unemployed, the women often takes over control of bills and decision making
Unemployed men do little around the home, for fear of emasculation
Women may live in fear of men's violence, but men don't feel threatened if a woman is violent
Believed that families were becoming more symmetrical and in the 1970s, 72% of men did some housework each week (other than washing up)
In today's postmodernist world, traditions are no longer kept to re: marriage
Cohabitation is common in those that have been married before
75% of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women are married by age 25 and Black British people are least likely to marry
People cohabit for different reasons - some due to ideological objection to marriage and others because of pregnancy
Marriage is a patriarchal institution with a notion of ownership
Women are frustrated with the triple shift - paid work, housework and emotional work
People expect more from marriage these days (equality, love) leading to divorces when not achieved
Married men are more likely to be employed than single men
Single parent families are less successful at instilling morals and values in the children than nuclear families are
Children from single parent families do worse at school, are more likely to be delinquent and more likely to be single parents themselves one day
Study 'Just like a girl' - girls have higher career aspirations these days
Women value friendship and emotional gratification in relationships
Marriage creates unrealistic expectations about monogamy, in a time where people should have sexual freedom
One good parent is better than two bad ones
Kinship ties are still important to most, with 90% of people having borrowed money from extended family
Study 'Villains' - found that the extended family is still very common in East London
Said that the nuclear family was in decline and no longer the main type of family
The nuclear family is the most common type, and many people will end up back in one as part of their life cycle
South Indian families tend to be larger due to tradition
Extended family was the norm in Bethnal Green in London, but is less common than it once was
Social policy is the way in which the government of the day directs it’s resources to meet specific social needs
The government makes it too easy to be a single parent due to the welfare state
New Right thinker who believes that abortion, gay parenting, sex education etc are all bad
The best council houses are given to nuclear families, showing that the government supports these the most
Nuclear families have 4 functions - educational, reproductive, sexual and economic
Functionalist who likened the family to a warm bath, as well as saying it socialised the children
Children are socialised into their gender roles through play (e.g. girls learn how to be a mummy by playing dolls)
The nuclear family can cause mental health problems (case study of Jane)
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