Thought on class this week September 23-27, 2013

    So this week in class we talked a lot about different trends that we see happening that relate to families. Some of these include:-Cohabitation
-Marriage age
-Living alone
-Pre-marital sex
-Unwed mothers
-Birthrates
-Divorce rates
Something that was focused a lot on was the birthrates, and how they are declining.
Today people just are not having big families like they use to and I never even really new about this or cared until we watched a movie/documentary type thing entitled:
 The New Economic Reality: Demographic winter (via BYUtv.org)

    This documentary talked about many things including birthrates which really stood out to me. The baby boom around the 1950s of course was discussed, but it turns out it is not exactly what people thought it was. When I hear baby boom I think of huge numbers of babies just being born to everywhere all the time to every family when in reality it was about 3.7 babies per women which when you think about it is not really a boom but more of a small pop of children.
     Back when this baby "boom" was going on people started freaking out saying the world was going to be over populated and that people should stop, one thing in the video that really bothered me was a man compared having 5 children to robbing a bank saying it was taking away from children and other people, WHAT? that just was a little extreme and made no sense to me and it turns out that around the 1970s it started showing that birthrates were declining YEAH!
     Many things contribute to this like the women's revolution and stuff, but personally I think marriage age is a big one because if people are not getting married or waiting to have children until their older there's not going to be kids and we need more young people in this world, you know to keep things going. :)
Now I'm not saying go out and get pregnant it was just a thought provoking to me to see all this put together
     After all this personally I think Its really important for people to keep and know the importance of families, the worlds population depends on it...just kidding...maybe
GET MARRIED HAVE FAMILIES WITH LOTS OF BABIES LOL :)
          Rachel


Here is a link to the video I was referencing and getting a lot of my opinions from.
http://www.byutv.org/watch/59b6b917-984a-478f-93b1-521a647779c4/new-economic-reality-demographic-winter-part-1 

http://www.byutv.org/watch/b3dfa9f3-6e20-4d64-af96-fbf3fd64670a/new-economic-reality-demographic-winter-part-2

Classmates Blogs

Here is a list of my fellow classmates blogs that will be talking about similar issues

http://lexandfamily.weebly.com/the-family.html

http://www.allysfamilylife.blogspot.com/

http://amberkranc.blogspot.com/

http://thoughtsonhomeandfamily.blogspot.com/

http://baileybaird.blogspot.com/

http://caitlinschofield.blogspot.com/

http://candicermerrill.blogspot.com/

http://familiesareforeverandever.blogspot.com/

http://lovethatlasts4ever.blogspot.com/

http://thenutty9.blogspot.com/

http://familiesconnectedtoheaven.blogspot.com/

http://haileypaterafamily.blogspot.com/

http://miissblondiiefamilies.blogspot.com/

http://thefamilyrelationship.blogspot.com/

http://the-family-is-ordained-of-god.blogspot.com/

http://thatsalongtime.blogspot.com/

http://lovemyeternalfamily.blogspot.com/

http://throughtheeternities.blogspot.com/

http://tormentorjoy.blogspot.com/

http://familysmatteralot.blogspot.com/

http://kelseyleighannmurphy.blogspot.com/

http://kodydaffer.blogspot.com/

http://alove4eternity.blogspot.com/

http://centeredonfamily.weebly.com/index.html

http://madelinemarievance.blogspot.com/

http://smilingfamilies.blogspot.com/

http://someviewsonlife.blogspot.com/

http://thestrongestalliance.blogspot.com/

http://patrickallenwilliams.blogspot.com/

http://4everfamiles.blogspot.com/

http://raebar92.blogspot.com/

http://sammischaweet.blogspot.com/

http://familiiesareforever.blogspot.com/

http://tinatrepanier.blogspot.com/

http://familyrelationsbytod.blogspot.com/

My name is Rachel Escobar and I am starting this blog for a class FAML 160: Family Relations. I have absolutely no idea how a blog works or if I am even doing it right. Just a little bit about me, I am from southern California about 40mins. north of Los Angeles and have lived there my entire life. I transferred to BYUI as a sophomore from my community college back home. Idaho is very different from anything I am used and definitely a new experience for me. I am a child development major and I have no idea what I want to do with that I just know I would like to work with children without being an elementary school teacher. In my spare time I like to hangout with friends and try new things recently I have started snowboarding and love it. This is a little about me I hope I am doing this correctly.

Rachel