In
this weeks material we explored the ideas of becoming an adult and being with
others and forming relationships. I found the idea of creating scenarios and
almost fantasizing about life that was discussed in chapter 10 to be very
fascinating. I believe that everyone starts out about making or defining a
life-span construct (sense of past, present and future) which then can lead
into manifesting the future, also called scenario. I think that it is
interesting to see how these scenarios and social clocks (setting a time or age
for a scenario) can be changed from where someone is raised or how they are
raised. This draws into the idea of the biopsychosocial framework. When you
look at a scenario for someone like getting married there are a lot of
different ideas about when this should happen. What age is put onto it differs.
I am not able to relate this to a biological construct but I can see how the
psycho and social roles could play on this.
I
am from Seattle we had 1 person get married right outside of high school out of
300 people in my graduating class (that I know of ) my boyfriend from Lynden
had maybe 20 people from a much smaller graduating class. This is not just a
coincidence but an example of how the biopsychosocial framework is really
everywhere. I think that this is mostly a small town idea to get married young
and I think it is social. What it is exactly about the small town I am not
sure. It could be religion, education, economics and definitely a mixture
between them all. I think it is fascinating that a place only 90 miles away
could have such a lower marriage rate outside of high school.
I would like to know more about how small town and cities
differ in things like marriage rate and amount of children. I have heard that
lesser developed countries tend to have more children because the more children
there are the more money can be brought into the home. I do not know how
accurate that is but I wonder how marriage and children would differ when
looking and similar socioeconomic trends but small verses large cities?
People with lower education, lower socioeconomic status, and fewer opportunities for advancement in these areas tend to marry earlier (http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/the-particular-struggles-of-rural-women/276803/). Most of these types of people tend to live in rural areas of the country. Furthermore, the more rural the area, the more people tend to identify with conservative religions, and religion tends to place a lens on relationships and marriage in such a way to make it more appealing to get married sooner, rather than later. To me, it seems the biggest factor is the limited selection of a mate. Most people never leave their hometown (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2008/12/17/who-moves-who-stays-put-wheres-home/), so the chances of finding someone compatible are greatly diminshed for those people. Settling is the term I associate with this trend and is also probably the cause of the 7% increase of domestic violence in rural areas (Atlantic article).
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