Family Key words

Question 1

Birth rate

Answer 1

Number of babies born per thousand people

Question 2

Blended family

Answer 2

This is also known as a reconstructed family. A blended family has parents and children from more than one relationship in it.

Question 3

Canalisation

Answer 3

Parents try and push children in certain directions, for instance by giving them gendered clothing

Question 4

Conjugal roles

Answer 4

This is the work that is done in the home depending on the gender.

Question 5

Divorce

Answer 5

The legal end of a marriage

Question 6

Domestic labour

Answer 6

Housework, or unpaid work in the home

Question 7

Family

Answer 7

This is a group of people to whom you feel related by ties of blood or marriage.

Question 8

Family Structure

Answer 8

This is the way that families organise themselves into family groups

Question 9

Kinship

Answer 9

Our sense of family relationships and duties

Question 10

Lone Parent

Answer 10

Person bringing up his or her children without a partner to support him or her

Question 11

Masculinity

Answer 11

This refers to the behaviour that is considered by a culture to be typical of males and men.

Question 12

Monogamy

Answer 12

This is used to describe single partner marriage; people are married to only one person at a time.

Question 13

New Right

Answer 13

This is a man who has thought about his gender behaviour and who acts in a way that is different from traditional macho men.

Question 14

Polygamy

Answer 14

This is marriage to multiple partners at a time.