This week in  my Family Relations class, I learned a lot about family trends. I didn't realize how many recent trends there are that are changing the views of the family unit. Some of the trends are divorces, cohabitation, lowered birthrates, same sex parents, and people are also getting married at and older age. The trend that interested me the most was the lowered birthrates. There are a lot of people now that don't put having kids as a priority. If couples do decide to have children they tend to only have a couple. I found it interesting, some of the reasons why people don't have very many kids or just don't have kids at all. Some of the reasons were: the cost of having kids, their parents didn't have very many kids, having kids made it hard to have a career. I find it sad that less and less people are deciding not to have the joys of having kids.

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Hi! My name is Sidney Acor and I created this blog for my Family Foundations class. The purpose of this blog is for me to be able to share what I learn in my class and share any other insights I have on the subjects taught in class. I'm excited to start sharing what I learn in this class! Enjoy!