Marriage and Family Flashcards
Ambilineal:
A type of unilateral descent that follows either the father’s or the mother’s side exclusively.
Bigamy:
The act of entering into marriage while still married to another person.
Bilateral Descent:
The tracing of kinship through both parents’ ancestral lines.
Cohabitation:
The act of a couple sharing a residence while they are not married.
Extended Family:
A household that includes at least one parent and their child as well as other relatives such as grandparent, aunt, uncle, or cousin.
Family:
Socially recognized groups of individuals who may be joined by blood, marriage, or adoption and who form an emotional connection and an economic unit of society.
Family Life Course:
A sociological model of family that sees the progression of events as fluid rather than as occurring in strict stages.
Family Life Cycle:
A set of predictable steps and patterns that families experience over time.
Family Of Orientation:
The family into which one is born.
Family Of Procreation:
A family that is formed through marriage.
Intimate Partner Violence:
Violence that occurs between individuals who maintain a romantic or sexual relationship.
Kinship:
A person’s traceable ancestry by blood, marriage, or adoption.
Marriage:
A legally recognized contract between two or more people in a sexual relationship who have an expectation of permanence about their relationship.
Matrilineal Descent:
A type of unilateral descent that follows the mother’s side only.
Matrilocal Residence:
A system in which it is customary for a husband to live with or near his wife’s family.
Monogamy:
The act of being married to only one person at a time.
Nuclear Family:
Two parents, traditionally a married husband and wife, and their children living in the same household.
Patrilineal Descent:
A type of unilateral descent that follows the father’s line only.
Patrilocal Descent:
A system in which it is customary for the wife to live with or near her husband’s family.
Polyandry:
A form of marriage in which one woman is married to more than one man at one time.
Polygamy:
The state of being committed or married to more than one person at a time.
Polygyny
A form of marriage in which one man is married to more than one woman at one time.
Shaken-Baby Syndrome:
A group of medical symptoms such as brain swelling and retinal hemorrhage resulting from forcefully shaking or impacting an infant’s head.
Unilateral Descent:
The tracing of kinship through one parent only.
