Family Diversity & Demography

Question 1

Bean pole family

Answer 1

family whose living members come from many generations, but with few members in each generation

Question 2

cohabitation

Answer 2

living together as a partnership without marriage

Question 3

confluent love

Answer 3

opposed to the ‘forever’ qualities of romantic love. people are often taking up separation or divorce, and there is less sexual exclusiveness in relationships.

Question 4

divorce

Answer 4

legal ending of a marriage by a court

Question 5

divorce rate

Answer 5

number of divorces per 1000 people per year

Question 6

empty shell marriage

Answer 6

a marriage where all love has run dry and the couple are married in name only

Question 7

gayby boom

Answer 7

the rise of same sex couples adopting children

Question 8

marriage

Answer 8

the legal recognition of a relationship

Question 9

marriage rate

Answer 9

number of marriages per 1000 people per year

Question 10

monogamy

Answer 10

the practice of marrying one person at a time.

Question 11

neo conventional family

Answer 11

a term put foward by Robert Chester to describe how the nuclear family may have changed in form rather than died

Question 12

plastic sexuality

Answer 12

when sex is freed from its association with childbirth altogether

Question 13

polygamy

Answer 13

marriage involving 2 or more wives or husbands

Question 14

polygyny

Answer 14

marriage involving 2 or more wives

Question 15

polyandry

Answer 15

marriage involving 2 or more husbands

Question 16

polyamorous

Answer 16

not limited to one relationship at a time but they are all serious emotional commitments, not just casual sex

Question 17

pure relationship

Answer 17

a relationship where there is a total acceptance on the part of each other ‘until further notice’

Question 18

primary relationships

Answer 18

close, long lasting and special ties between people

Question 19

reconstituted familes

Answer 19

family in which one or both partners bring children from a previous relationship

Question 20

romantic love

Answer 20

the old fashioned form of love whereby the opposite sex would idealise the other

Question 21

serial monogamy

Answer 21

when one moves from one relationship to another

Question 22

Birth rate

Answer 22

Number of births per 1000 per year

Question 23

Infant mortality rate

Answer 23

Number of deaths of babies under 1 years of age per 1000 per year

Question 24

Death rate

Answer 24

Number of deaths per 1000 per year

Question 25

Fertility rate

Answer 25

Number of live births per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 years

Question 26

Life expectancy

Answer 26

Average period that a person may expect to live

Question 27

Migration

Answer 27

Movement of people from place to place

Question 28

Immigration

Answer 28

Movement of people into am area/society

Question 29

Emigration

Answer 29

Moment of people out of an area

Question 30

Net migration

Answer 30

Immigration minus emigration

Question 31

Dependency ratio

Answer 31

Relationship between those in employment and those dependent on them