Families and households- Family types

Question 1

Define monogamy

Answer 1

Marriage between two individuals

Question 2

Define Bigamy

Answer 2

The act of going through a marriage ceremony while already married to another person

Question 3

Define Polyandry

Answer 3

A form of polygamy where a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time

Question 4

Define Polygyny

Answer 4

A form of plural marriage in which a man is allowed more than one wife

Question 5

Define patriarchal

Answer 5

Relating to or characteristics of a system of society or government controlled by men

Question 6

Define matrifocal

Answer 6

Relating to or characteristics of a system of society or government controlled by women

Question 7

Give 4 examples that prove that the nuclear family is not the only way to bring up children

Answer 7

-Kibbutz
-Nayar
-Ashant
-Commune

Question 8

What are the characteristics of a kibbutz?

Answer 8

-Children are raised by multiple caregivers, collective rearing
-Traditional family structure
-Maintains an agricultural focus
-They all live sleep, play and do school together
-The reasoning behind this is that if children are raised by their biological parents they may find it difficult to develop social skills
-Children are dependent on their peers, not their biological parents

Question 9

What are some characteristics of a Nayar?

Answer 9

-Girls are wed before puberty
-Matrifocal society
-Men are only used for sperm donation
-Children live with their mothers

Question 10

What are some features of an Ashant?

Answer 10

-Women do not meet their husbands until their weddings
-Divorce is very rare
-Patriarchal
-Boys are raised by their fathers and men from their mother’s side

Question 11

What are the characteristics of a commune?

Answer 11

-Collective living
-Often share the same political or religious beliefs
-Children are seen as a group responsibility

Question 12

What is a social construct?

Answer 12

Where something is created by a social process rather than naturally occurring

Question 13

What is a family?

Answer 13

-A social institution consisting of a group of people who are related by kinship ties, relations of blood, marriage/civil partnership or adoption
-Cohabiting couples not formally linked by kinship are also often regarded as a family unit

Question 14

Define a household

Answer 14

One person living alone or a group of people who live at the same address and share living arrangements

Question 15

What is a single-person household?

Answer 15

An individual living alone

Question 16

Define a gay/lesbian family

Answer 16

Same-sex couple living together with children

Question 17

What is a lone-parent family?

Answer 17

Lone parents with dependent children, mostly common after divorce or separation (maybe after death,unwillingness to marry or cohabit)

Question 18

Define a reconstituted family (step/blended)

Answer 18

One or both parents previously married with children of previous relationships

Question 19

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 19

Two generations; of parents and children living in the same household

Question 20

Define a beanpole family

Answer 20

A multi-generational extended family is long and thin with few aunts, uncles and cousins reflecting fewer children being born in each generation but people living for longer periods of time

Question 21

What is an extended family?

Answer 21

All kin including those beyond the nuclear family

Question 22

Define a classic extended family

Answer 22

An extended family sharing the same household or living in close proximity

Question 23

What is a modified extended family?

Answer 23

An extended family living far apart but keeping in touch by phone, letters, email and networking websites

Question 24

What is serial monogamy?

Answer 24

Having a series of monogamous marriages (only one partner at a time)