Chapter 2 Flashcards
Polygamy
1 person; multiple spouse
Polyandry
1 wife; multiple husbands
Polygyny
1 husband; multiple wives
Modern Family
Male bread winner, wife, and children
Democratic Family
Two people marrying for the consideration of nurture and providing
Companionate Family
Two people marrying out of love
Post Modern Family
Marriage out of love, nurture, and providing
D.I.N.K
Dual Income No Kids
Commodities
Measure it - Keep it - Save it - Waste it
Organic Foods
The way farmers grow and process agricultural products.
Differences in fertilization, insecticide, and pesticides
Monetary Benefits
Legal System: a procedure or process for interpreting and enforcing the law.
Life insurance: a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person.
FMLA: Family And Medical Leave Act; certain employers, including the State of Maryland, to grant job- protected leave to employees
Social security benefit: payments made to qualified retired adults and people with disabilities, and to their spouses, children, and survivors.
IRS: Internal Revenue Service; responsible for collecting taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.
SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; assistance to more low-income households during an economic downturn or recession and to fewer households during an economic expansion, serving as an automatic stabilizer to the economy.
Cohabition
Having sexual relations and living together without being wed.
Types of marriages
Interracial: two people; different race
Interethnic: two people; different ethnicity
Interfaith: two people; different religion
Intrafaith: two people; different take on same religion
Four functions: Juliet Mitchells Theory
Production
Reproduction
Socialization
Sexuality
Three basic functions of a family
Raise children responsibly
Provide economic support
Gives family members emotional security