family planning

Examples of family planning in the following topics:

• Parenthood

  • Permissive or Indulgent parenting is most popular in middle class families in Western culture.
  • In these family settings, a child's freedom and autonomy are valued and parents tend to rely mostly on reasoning and explanation.
  • Slow Parenting: allowing the child to develop their own interests and allowing them to grow into their own person; lots of family time; allowing children to make their own decisions; limit electronics, simplistic toys
  • Family planning is the decision whether and when to become parents, including planning, preparing, and gathering resources.
  • They should also assess whether their family situation is stable enough and whether they themselves are responsible and qualified enough to raise a child.

• Juvenile Crime

  • Prevention services may include activities like substance abuse education and treatment, family counseling, youth mentoring, parenting education, educational support, and youth sheltering.
  • Increasing availability and use of family planning services, including education and contraceptives, helps to reduce unintended pregnancy and unwanted births—which are risk factors for delinquency .
  • Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter juvenile delinquency, showing silhouettes of a child stealing a piece of fruit and as an older minor involved in armed robbery.

• New Developments in Families

  • One recent trend illustrating the changing nature of families is the rise in prevalence of single-parent or one-parent households.
  • (i.e., the inability to support a nuclear family on a single wage), had significant ramifications on family life.
  • In Sweden, Denmark and Norway, cohabitation is very common; roughly 50% of all children are born into families of unmarried couples.
  • In late 2005, 21% of families in Finland consisted of cohabiting couples (all age groups).
  • Further, recent findings concerning adolescents raised in planned lesbian families suggests these children do as well or better on all social indicators as children raised in heterosexual and / or mixed-orientation households.

• Urban Gentrification

  • In its early days, this alleyway housed only Italian families.
  • After World War II, the local government launched plans to construct a cross-town highway, so most of the Italian inhabitants of Darien Street moved out; as they moved out, even poorer African-American residents moved in.
  • Between 1977 and 1979, five of the seven pre-1977 families residing on Darien Street had been pushed out because of increased rents.
  • The remaining two families rented and were expecting to be economically evicted.
  • New urban residents were composed of higher, dual-income couples without children, less concerned about space for large families—one of the main draws to the suburbs for their parents.

• The Nature of a Family

  • In sociological literature, the most common form of this family is often referred to as a nuclear family.
  • A "matrilocal" family consists of a mother and her children.
  • Common in the western societies, the model of the family triangle, where the husband, wife, and children are isolated from the outside, is also called the oedipal model of the family.
  • This family arrangement is considered patriarchal.
  • As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family.

• Family Structures

  • However, this two-parent, nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms have become more common.
  • The nuclear family is considered the "traditional" family and consists of a mother, father, and the children.
  • Divorce rates, along with the remarriage rate are rising, therefore bringing two families together as step families.
  • In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the nuclear family.
  • An American family composed of the mother, father, children, and extended family.

• Homelessness

  • After the economic crash of 2008, many families were no longer able to make payments on their mortgages and were evicted from their homes.
  • Oftentimes, these families either stayed for short periods with extended family or lived in their vehicles.
  • When markets crash, even families that appeared to be middle class may suddenly become homeless.
  • Family support can provide a buffer against homelessness; those who lack support are at increased risk.
  • Instead, a policy patchwork provides some housing, some healthcare, and some education, but not a comprehensive plan.

• The Functions of a Family

  • Given these functions, the nature of one's role in the family changes over time.
  • From the perspective of children, the family instills a sense of orientation: The family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization .
  • Producing offspring is not the only function of the family.
  • From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: The family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
  • From the point of view of the parents, the family is a family of procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children

• Family

  • Given these functions, the individual's experience of his or her family shifts over time.
  • From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
  • From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children.
  • Producing offspring is not the only function of the family.
  • Families have strong ties and, therefore, are powerful agents of socialization.

• Families and Theory

  • The primary function of the procreative families (e.g., families built around the pursuit of parenthood) is to reproduce society, biologically through procreation, socially through socialization, or in both ways.
  • Given these functions, one's experience of one's family shifts over time.
  • From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
  • From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation: the family functions to produce and socialize children.
  • This privilege was denied commoners and may have served to concentrate wealth and power in one family.