Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Love, Intimacy & Family Policy
Course Number:
SPY00019H
Course Description:
Finding love and the ‘right’ partner to live with is a major life-course event and one of the biggest challenges we face as adults. So too is becoming a parent. Yet, Western countries are struggling; we have high rates of relationship breakdown and this is a worry for policy makers and for wider society. Does this mean we are no longer capable of making commitments to one another? Are our relationships more disposable; do we drop or swap partners when we feel they are no longer of any use to us? Or is it that the traditional expectations of the past are being remodelled as people are finding new and perhaps more creative ways of 'doing' family and being in families. This module explores theses changes in our most intimate of relationships and how family policy both responds and also supports mothers and fathers to work and care for their
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/SPY00019H/latest
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