Chapter 11 - Family Flashcards
Family
A group of people who identify themselves as being related to one another, usually by blood, marriage, adoption, or who share intimate relations and dependency
Marriage
A relationship between usually two people which provides a degree of economic cooperation, emotional intimacy, and sex
Polygyny
A man has multiple wives
Polyandry
A women has multiple husbands
Endogamy
Marriage in which the partner is of the same social group or caste
Nuclear Family
Parents living with their biological children and apart from kin
Extended Family
Social groups consisting of one or more parents, children, and other kin. Often spanning several generations and living in the same household
Fictive Kin
Social ties that are not based on marriage or blood
Common law marriage / cohabitation
Partners live as if married, but without the legal framework
Changing family compositions
- 1/3 was non-family households
- Gay marriages w/ or w/o children
- marriage rates decline as do divorce rates
- immigrant families
Violence and the family
- domestic abuse
- hard to gather data on occurrences
- seen as a family matter
1/3 women, 1/4 men victims of IPV intimate partner violence - child abuse
Marriage protective factors
- Making over 50k
- older and fatter (men)
- man does more chores
- less rom coms
- people around you getting divorced
Benefits of marriage
- make more money and have more sex
- healthier
- better kids
Engaged and not cohabitation experience
less stress than married peers
Married people are…
More satisfied than young counterparts
