各級學校施行家庭教育課程及活動實施要點的建構理念.ppt

Introduction ?demography is essentially a cross-disciplinary field and thus has much to offer work-family researchers. ?demography counts people and it places them: 1.where they live 2.where they work Introduction ?demography offers: 1.advantage--identifying, quantifying, and geographically locating populations 2.disadvantage--long lag (20)between perceiving a need for information and acquiring it Introduction ?demography : a large descriptive discipline, testing theories, and assumptions developed within other disciplines, especially sociology and economics, using the databases developed by the federal government for measuring the population and changes in it that are important for public policies and programs. Data and Trends: Family What is a Family ?history : 1.familia ( Latin word): house 2.US agricultural history: everyone live together 3.modern times: household (1)nonfamily households (1/3) (2)family households (2/3) What is a Family ?history : modern times: household 7/10 children : in traditional family 3/10 children : other living arrangement What is a Family ?for work and family issues : nonresident family members such as a divorced parent are involved, whether in terms of care or money ?why residence rule avoid distorting the work/family portrait What is a Family ?definition : most public data: a group of two persons or more…related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together some other data sets: live together but not married Family Trends ?work/family conflicts : consists largely of families with dependent children under 15 that have no full-time stay-at-home parent elderly care issues exclude from this chapter Family Trends ?work/family issues : 1.these issues influence people’s choice about whether to have children, how many to have, and the timing between births