HDFS 105 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I Your values II Family values III Demographics of adulthood IV Education V Features of emerging adulthood time of transition Arnett VI Physical development in early adulthood VII Cognitive development Piaget VIII Carol Gilligan IX Our society s love for early adulthood X Social norms XI Erikson s stage early adulthood XII Levinson research early adulthood XIII Adult attachment categories XIV Mental health XV Rape XVI Friendships in early adulthood XVII Love relationships XVIII Variations in family organization and structure XIX Becoming parents XX Changes in the division of household labor XXI Do all couples become parents XXII Unmarried couples XXIII Divorce Outline of Current Lecture I Possible conflicts in the future middle adulthood II What is likely to happen to you in the next 20 years Current Lecture I Possible conflicts in the future middle adulthood a Financial issues mortgage b Health issues including spontaneous accidents c Mental issues depression stress d Relationship issues not enough time with your significant other because of other responsibilities domestic violence occurs in every social class divorce These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute e f II Problems with your children including health problems You cannot control what happens despite your willingness to keep everything under control What is likely to happen to you in the next 20 years a Getting married ever married i Women 83 7 ii Men 80 6 iii Over a lifetime between 43 46 of marriages end in divorce iv Not working when having children age 6 17 years old 1 Women 23 1 2 Men 6 9 ii Not working when having children age under 6 years old 1 Women 38 2 2 Men 4 6 b How many times will you change a job i More than 10 there s no security in your job younger and cheaper people will replace you b Lose your job i Depends on economic conditions education But 1 2 of people lose their job every year ii Unemployment is typically overwhelming b Going through an economic recession i You will work through or not several recessions until you are 40 ii Unemployment rate is much higher than your chances of winning the lottery b College i Women earn about 50 of bachelor s degrees and 60 of master s degrees ii Still women focus more on traditional female kinds of roles like teaching social work and nursing b The middle class is struggling i Majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class considered a healthy society however researchers concluded that the middle class were those who made 45 000 to 90 000 in 2006 researchers are finding that the middle class is experiencing a squeeze the middle class has been shrinking if you re in the middle class it s easier to fall down to lower class than to move up to upper class b How to economy affects you i Low wage jobs and nonstandard work 1 Federal minimum wage which rose from 6 55 to 7 25 an hour in 2009 increased the wages of less than 4 of the workforce 2 Full time jobs are being replaced by part time jobs b Women s participation in the labor force i High proportions of high school and college women who say that they expect to marry have children and work are right on target b c many of them will have to work to make ends meet ii iii iv v vi Days when mothers stayed home and raised children are disappearing Important for a couple to be dual earners More than one half of all American mothers with a child younger than 1 year work They work longer during their pregnancy and return more quickly to work Why do women work 1 Men s participation in the workforce has gone down and women s has increased why 2 Many men s employment in the 1980s and 1990s dropped due to offshoring and deindustrialization competing with foreign workers that are hard working and cheaper for employers