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Session
3: Family Formation and Community Connections
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Lecturers
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Major
Themes to Be Covered
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Trends
in marriage and child-bearing: over time, across different
locales, and for different subgroups of the populations.
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The
developmental processes affecting marriage and child-bearing.
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How
the processes of family formation vary by parent/partner's
race/ethnicity and socio-economic status.
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Community
influences on family formation.
- The
family life cycle and the making and breaking of community
connections.
Students
Will Learn
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The
basic demography of marriage and child-bearing in the
contemporary U.S.
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Why
family formation patterns vary so much across U.S. communities?
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The
individual-developmental and community-social influences
on the processes of family formation.
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The
unique contributions of families to community life at
different stages of the family life cycle.
- Specific
community-building strategies to support families of the
earliest stages of formation and consolidation.
Required
Readings:
Cowan
C, Cowan P. 2000. When Partners Become Parents (pp. 1-12).
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Cox
M, Paley B. 1997. Families as systems. Annual Review of Psychology,
48:243-247.
Fields J, Casper LM. 2001. America's families and living arrangements:
Population characteristics (pp. 1-15). Current Population
Reports, P20-537. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau.
Maynard R. Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special
Report on the Causes of Adolescent Childbearing (pp. 1-20).
New York: Robin Hood Foundation.
Suggested
Readings:
Brown
SS, Eisenberg L. 1995. The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy
and the Well-Being of Children and Families (pp. 1-10).
Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
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