Key defintions and extra questions

Question 1

What is a family?

Answer 1

A group of people linked by blood or law eg marriage or adoption.

Question 2

What is the nuclear family?

Answer 2

A heterosexual couple whose children still live with them. Normally one male child and one female child.

Question 3

What is the nuclear family called in the media?

Answer 3

Cereal packet family.

Question 4

What is the nuclear family also called and why?

Answer 4

Conventional nuclear family and because it is presented as the only acceptable family type.

Question 5

What is family diversity?

Answer 5

This means there are many different types of families.

Question 6

Why is there more family diversity?

Answer 6

There is more family diversity because over recent years there have been changes in the law allowing different types to be possible another cause is secularization.

Also changes in stigma, immigration, science changing how families are constructed, society becoming more accepting.

Question 7

What is secularization?

Answer 7

Loss of religious belief in society.

Question 8

What is a household?

Answer 8

A household is people who live together and share living arrangements. Eg families.

Question 9

What is the extended family?

Answer 9

The parents and their children plus wider members of the family such as grandparents, aunties, uncles, and cousins.

Question 10

What is a reconstituted family?

Answer 10

A reconstituted family is a family made up of other families. For example when a partner or both partners have children from the previous relationship(s).

Question 11

What is a lone-parent family?

Answer 11

When one parent brings up the dependent child.

Question 12

What is a dependent child?

Answer 12

A dependent child is any person aged 0 to 15 in a household (whether or not in a family) or a person aged 16 to 18 who’s in full-time education and living in a family with his or her parent(s) or grandparent(s).

Question 13

What is the beanpole family?

Answer 13

A family where each generation has not had many kids but has a long thin family tree. This happens because people tend to live longer but are having fewer kids.

Question 14

What is a cohabiting family?

Answer 14

A family which lives together but no legal bonds between the parents. For example, they are not married.

Question 15

What does cohabiting mean?

Answer 15

To live without marriage.

Question 16

What is a same-sex or single-sex family?

Answer 16

When a same-sex couple is bringing up children.

Question 17

Why are same-sex or single-sex families more frequent?

Answer 17

Because of IVF treatment, changes in the law allowing gay couples, adoption, and reconstitution.

Question 18

What is monogamy?

Answer 18

Monogamy is the family type of the western world- where only two people are involved in the relationship.

Question 19

What is serial monogamy?

Answer 19

Serial monogamy is where they will have many types of one-to-one relationships throughout their life.

Question 20

What is polygamy?

Answer 20

Poly = more than one

Polygamy is where you can legally have more than one partner. Usually more than one wife,

Question 21

What is polyandry?

Answer 21

Polyandry is when women can have more than one husband. For example when brothers marry the same woman because the land needs more than one man to farm it etc.

Question 22

Is polyandry rare or common?

Answer 22

Rare.

Question 23

What is arranged marriage?

Answer 23

Arranged marriage is when the parents decide who the child will marry.

Question 24

Are arranged marriages done for love?

Answer 24

Arranged marriages are not done for love but for money or to unite two families.

Question 25

Where are arranged marriages common?

Answer 25

In Pakistani and India.

Question 26

What are Forced Marriages?

Answer 26

This is when a child (usually a girl) is made to marry someone against their will.

Question 27

When happens when the child refuses?

Answer 27

It is seen as a threat to family honor. And in rare cases, it leads to an ‘honor killing’.

Question 28

What is honor killing?

Answer 28

When the girl is murdered rather than dishonor her family by refusing to marry the person designated to her.

Question 29

What are other ways you can dishonor your family leading to honor killing?

Answer 29

By dating a westerner or divorcing their arranged marriage.

Question 30

What were adults given if they had one child in China?

Answer 30

They were given free education and healthcare.

Question 31

What would happen if a couple had a second child during China’s one-child policy?

Answer 31

Abortions would happen, jobs will be lost and fines would be given out.
Twin and multiple births were exempt from this rule.

Question 32

Another problem with the one-child policy?

Answer 32

Boys were seen as more valuable than girls.

Question 33

What did the problem with the one-child policy lead to?

Answer 33

This led to girls more likely to be aborted or abanded in orphanages leading to a male-heavy population.

Question 34

What did the problem with the one-child policy also lead to?

Answer 34

Men struggling to find wives.

Question 35

How many children have China now relaxed the rule to?

Answer 35

Two kids per couple.

Question 36

What was the cereal packet family seen as?

Answer 36

It was seen as the perfect, ideal happy family.