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FAMILIES IN A CANADIAN SOCIETY OAC MID-TERM EXAM REVIEW SHEET THE CHANGE IN THE FAMILY THROUGHOUT HISTORY There were four different periods through which the family over went changes. These periods were the Pre Industrial Period, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Sexual Revolution. 1) The Pre Industrial Family: pre 19th century family economies, (every member contributed to economy of family) economy based on agriculture, and was rural based family much larger, b/c more children had, the more likely the family was going to survive also, more children, meant that they could help on farm, and with elderly parents (support) children considered overall producers to economy work gender defined and the family consisted of many generations workplace and home one and the same 2) The Industrial Family: 19th century economy now industrial, not only agrarian the family now called family wage economies, due to the fact that members would eventually leave home to go to the workplace three stages: Manufactory stage: handicraft production predominated. There was a trend towards specialization. Many craftsmen for one operation. Proto-Industialization: 1815-1830. Traditional domestic work patterns combined with new forms of labor. Industrial Economy: new social order. New wealth was based on manufacturing and trade, not only land. Property less, urban wage earning laboring working class(referred by Marx Proletarianization) Great Reform Act, 1832, gave more people the vote, and this made them feel that they were part of political system, , primarily political reforms Luddites Factory Acts, 1833, discouraged women and children from being hired family consumer economies, since women and children no longer in the work force, they were viewed as consumers absentee father syndrome, was what it was called, because the fathers were always in the work place 3) The Great Depression: Triggered by Black Thursday, on Thursday October 29, 1929. F.D.R. constructed New Deal, also known as the National Recovery Agency the welfare state created things such as welfare, unemployment insurance, pension plans, etc. in order to divert unemployed away from communism Bennett, Canadian P.M. copied F.D.Rs new deal with advent of pension plans, adult children no longer needed to care for elderly parents, who could now be financially independent of children nuclear family as the norm families smaller, max. of two generations under one roof 4) The Sexual Revolution: occurred in the 1960s the divorce rate up more people in cohabiting families delay to get married and have children, sex before marriage 1 in 7 nuclear, 60 % are blended, extended, or dual income families most people living in cohabiting families surrogates birth control invented children were not seen for their economic value, but for their emotional value THE CHANGE IN THE VIEW OF CHILDREN THROUGHOUT HISTORY There are many different views of what children are, how they are born and what they are proof of.
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