Families Key Terms📚 Flashcards
Dispersed Extended Family
Where kin are geographically separated but still maintain frequent contact
Lone parent family
A family with only a mother or father as a consequence of death, divorce or individual choice
Local extended family
Where kin live in close proximity
Polygyny
The practice of a man having several wives
Conjugal relationships
The relationship between marital or cohabitating partners
Conjugal roles
The roles typically associated with male and female partners
Arranged marriage
A matchmaking practice instigated through relatives of friend
Double shift
Working women who continue to perform the bulk of the domestic labour and paid employment
Same sex family
Families headed by a couple of the same sex
Same sex family
Families headed by a couple of the same sex
Symmetrical family
A family where both domestic and economic responsibilities are shared equally between male and female partners
Joint conjugal roles
Male and female partners who share household tasks
Money Management
The power relationship surrounding how finances are spent within the family
Extended family
Parents, their children and other more distant relatives EG grandparents, aunts, uncles
Triple shift
The three types of work that create a burden for women; paid work, domestic work and emotional work
Patriarchal family
A male dominated family group
Infanticide
The intentional killing of infants
Kibbutz
Collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture
Patrilineal
Inheriting or determined descent through the male line
Commune
A group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities
Divorce
The formal, legal, ending of a marriage
Empty nest syndrome
A stage in the family life cycle when the children have reached adulthood and have left the paternal home
