Families and household

• Stabilization of adult personalities is achieved through biologically determined roles - Expressive and instrumental
• Parsons' view downplays the role of conflict in the family, ignores family diversity, and is considered out of date and deterministic
• Immigration


  Moving into a country that is not your country of origin
• Pull Factors

  Welfare state, Education systems, Standard of living, Weather, job Opportunities
• Information hierarchy


  Division between those who can access information and those that can't
• UK has a minister for Children and Families
• Changes to the status of children: March of Progress View
• Boys and girls will have different experiences of childhood due to gender role socialization
• A UNICEF survey in 2013 ranked the UK 16th out of 29 for children's well-being
• TOXIC CHILDHOOD: HOW THE MODERN WORLD IS DAMAGING OUR CHILDREN AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT
• Children are active agents playing a major part in creating their own childhoods
• Childhood is the period of time that a person is considered to be a child
• Children have rather strict daily routines controlled by parents
• 13+ age group is more than likely a social construction as differences both culturally and historically are much more apparent
• Women are seen as less committed to their careers after they have children compared to men, due to their roles at home
• Not all men are violent, and men can be victims too
• Lack of time and money can reduce the social circle and people for support, contributing to domestic violence
• Men are not always violent to their partners