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All societies possess social standards that control the sequence and the tempo of important life occurrences. Frank Furstenberg in, Unplanned Parenthood introduces this notion of social standards through what he terms the normative schedule. According to Furstenberg normative schedules are, "prescribed life courses, it is the timing of life events"(Furstenberg pg.2). Normative schedules vary from society to society. They are precise structures imposed by cultural rules and by social constraints. Through normative schedules public as well as private experiences are 'scheduled' or structured to occur at a specific time and in specific circumstances. The scheduling of parenthood, a private behavior, is subject to a society's normative schedule. When and under what circumstances vary from one culture to another, but no society leaves it purely to biological chance. Furstenberg's normative schedules are direct results of the cultural restrictions on life that Herbert Blumer explores in his book, Society as Symbolic Interaction. According to Blumer, "social theorists have long recognized the universal existence of cultural restrictions on reproduction" (Blumer pg.50). A culture's restrictions on rep
Thorne would say teen motherhood does not support society's ideology of the family; rather it challenges it. Arthur Campbell in, "The Role of Family Planning in the Reduction of Poverty" expresses this idea in the following way:The girl who has an illegitimate child at the age of 16 suddenly has 90 percent of her life's script written for her. "Feminism and the Family: Two Decades of Thought. The Double Jeopardy The Triple Crisis. Presumably the realities of Adan Chamul and other teen mothers makes it difficult for them to realize or even remember previous goals, whatever they were. Congress, Department of Labor, et al. Do women really become mothers at an early age out of choice? When implementing strategies to prevent early motherhood one must assess whether teen mothers, prior to their pregnancy, were outside of their society's normative schedule.
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