Timeline of Canadian Family Structure
Pre-Industrial Families p.2
Hunter-Gatherer Families
Agricultural Families
Contemporary Families p.2
Future Family: 1,000 years
Urban Industrial Families p.2
- technological advancement
- domestication of animals
- permanent settlements
- children often live with parents into adulthood
- technology used to extend human life
- marriage out of necessity, not love
- monogamous
- often lived with extended family
- increased need for manual labour
- Men: landowners, worked farms, patriarch
- gender roles no longer exist
Growth of new family structures;
- transitional, dual-income, blended, same-sex, single parent, etc.
- men worked in new factories, women discouraged from workforce, earned less
- Women: worked fields, cared for children, handled domestic work
- gathered fruit, nuts, berries, etc.
- responsible for childcare
- resembled nuclear family ideal
- Children: economic necessity, worked as soon as able
Pre-Industrial Families
Hunter-Gatherers p.2
Urban Industrial Families
Future Family: 100 years
Contemporary Families
- motherhood as ideal, goal for women
- family structure looser, friends become extended family, etc.
- lived in nomadic groups of 5-80
- egalitarian
- Men led their families to cities and towns for work
- when they were able to settle, couples formed, making the first ''marriages"
- father, husband, head of household
- dominant over family, sole provider
- education becomes institution; children no longer needed solely for work
Child labour: necessary to survive economy
- boys: craft/trade by apprenticing
- girls: servants and domestic work
Among others,
= women's independence, which helped result in the following changes...
Women's work:
- support of husband, child and house care, financially dependent
- Artificial Intelligence technology growth used to benefit human life, services
- decrease in couples marrying, decrease in birth rate