Child-Related Family Issues and Parenting

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Child-related family issues andparenting


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Those who decide not to have children considerthemselves to be child- free. whereas those whodo not produce children through no choice oftheir own May consider themselves childless.

1- deciding to have children 2-adoption 3-teenage pregnancies

4-single-parent households 5-two parent households 6-remaining single


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Deciding to have children

Women in America on average are now having 2 children. However rates of fertility differ across racial and ethniccategories.

Advances in birth control techniques make it possible forpeople to decide whether or not they want to havechildren, how many they wish to have ,and to determinethe spacing of their births .

According to sociologist Leslie king and MadonnaMeyer many us women spend up to one half oftheir life attempting to control their productivity.


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However ,the desire not have

children comes in conflict withour societys pronatalist bias,which assumes that having

children is the norm.However some couples

experience the condition ofinfertility. They may choose tobecome parents by adopting a

child.


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Adoption

This is a legal process through which the rightsand duties of parenting are transferred from achilds legal parents to new parent.


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Matching children who are available foradoption with prospective adoptive parentscan be difficult.

Some adoptions are by relative of child andothers are by infertile couples.

In US fewer infants are available for adoptiontoday than in the past because better meansof contraception and abortion facility


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Teenage Pregnancies

Teenage Pregnancies are a popular topic inmedia and political discourse, and the unitedstates has the highest rate of teen agepregnancy.


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Reasons for teenage pregnancy

Teenagers dont use contraceptives

They are from low income family andsubordinate racial and ethnic groups

Teenagers view pregnancy as a way to gainadult status.


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Negative Consequences

Bad health for mother and child

Limited opportunity for education andemployment.

Poverty


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Single-Parent Households

In recent years there has been a significance insingle parent households due to divorce rate.

It can be an emotional and financial burdeneven for a person with sufficient income andnetwork of family and friends.

About 42% of all white children and 68% of

African American children will spend their partof their childhood living in single parenthouseholds.


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Negative Affects

Children from mother only families are morelikely than children in two parent family tohave poor academic achievements

Higher school absentee and dropout rates

More drug and alcohol use


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Remaining Single

Some never married people remain single bychoice.

Reasons include opportunity for a career The availability of sexual parents without

marriage. The belief that the single lifestyle is full of

excitement


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Statistics

Among persons age 15 and over 43.5 % ofAfrican American have never married,compared with 33.2 percent Latinos and 24.5% white Americans never married.

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