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1
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What is a family

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The family is the most basic social institution in society

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Family

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A relatively perms arm group of people connected by ancestral lineage, marriage, or adoption

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3
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Types of family organizations

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  1. Nuclear family
  2. Extended family
  3. Modified extended family
  4. Kinship groups
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4
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Nuclear family

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  • consists of parents and kids
  • they life together but apart from other family members
  • people in N.F. Actually belong to two families
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5
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What two families do nuclear families consist of?

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Family of orientation

Family of procreation

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6
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Family of orientation

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Family people belong to as a family, where you receive your initial orientation into society

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Family of procreation

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Family of marriage

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8
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Extended family

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  • family members of several generations who share a household (grandparents, cousins aunts, uncles)
  • they are economically and emotionally blind to one another
  • there are two types of extended family
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Two types of extended family

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Joint extended

Fertile extended family

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10
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Joint extended family

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Common is rural America: children may stay on farm land after marriage; build own house; help work the land

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Vertical extended family

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Aging parents living w adult children and their families

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12
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Modified extended family

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Different generations do not necessarily live under the same roof but keeping contact is important

1) family always at your house
2) family connected via social media

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Kinship group

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-a complex network of people
-social relationship based on a common ancestry, marriage, and or adoption
(In laws, God parents)
-kG include all your relatives, this who you see often and those who you only see at events

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14
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Four ways related to people

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Consanguineal
Affinal
Adoptive
Fictive

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Consaguineal

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People related by biological ties (parents kids blood relatives)

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Affinal

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People related by marriage (spouses blood relatives)

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Adoptive

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People related through adoptive process

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Fictive

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People related by spiritual ties or ritual or friendship (FOD parents, close family friends you call uncle/aunt)

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4 patters of residency

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Patrilocal
Matrilocal
Bi-local
Neo-local

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20
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Patrilocal

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Married couples live by husbands family

2/3 of the worlds societies practice this pattern

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Matrilocal

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Married couples live by wife’s family

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Bi-local

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Husband and wife have equal say in which family they live by

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Neo-local

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Common in industrialized societies

Family of marriage establishes their home without regard of where their families of orientation live

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24
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What is the steady rate of divorce

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51%

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25
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What percentage of the adult population is currently divorced

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13%

26
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What percent of adults have been divorced at least once

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25%

27
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In the age group of 35-45 what percent has been divorced

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30%

28
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What four factors contribute to divorce

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Teenage marriage
Dissimilar social backgrounds
Ease of obtaining a divorce
Dual-earner families

29
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Teenage marriage

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Divorce rates are 2/3 loser among women who marry after the age of 25 (compared to teens)
Pregnant teens have a 72% divorce rate

30
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Pregnant teens divorce rate

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72%

31
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Dissimilar social backgrounds

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Differences in values or lifestyle prior to marriage can magnify problems

32
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Ease of obtaining a divorce

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Changing laws
“No fault” divorces
The social stigma attached to divorce has lessened

33
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Dual earner families

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It’s easier to leave an unhappy marriage when both families are able to support themselves
Devotion to the pursuit of careers leads many to grow apart

34
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Four problems associated w divorce

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Feelings of personal failure
Loneliness and financial hardships
A child’s feeling of grief, guilt, and abandonment
Child custody issues

35
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 are living in a home w 2 married parents in their first marriage?

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45%

36
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 lived in a home w two parents in their first marriage in 1960

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74%

37
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 lived in a home w two parents in their first marriage in 1980

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63%

38
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 lived in a home w two parents in their first marriage in 2000

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55%

39
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What percentage of kids were born outside of marriage in 1960

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5%

40
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What percent are born outside of marriage in 2015

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43%

41
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What percent of children today are living w an unmarried parent

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39%

42
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What percent of children were living w an unmarried parent in 1960

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9%

43
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What percent of children were living w an unmarried parent in 1980

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19%

44
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What percent of children were living w an unmarried parent in 1998

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30%

45
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What percent of single parent households headed by mothers

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84%

46
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What percent of single mothers were never married

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49%

47
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What percent of the 1.6 million children were born out of wedlock were to females under 20? (2013)

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17%

48
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What percent of children born outside of wedlock were born to women 20-40 (2013)

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37%

49
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What women are more likely to have children outside marriage than other racial groups

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Blacks

50
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What percent of births to black women were non marital births

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72%

51
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What percent more than 42000 adoptions were to single females (2000)

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33%

52
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What percent of more than 42000 adoptions were to single fathers (2000)

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3%

53
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Problems of the single parent family

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Life in SPF can be very “rich” emotionally but some problems still exist
Providing adequate childcare is difficult if the parent is employed
43% of SPF are on welfare or gov assistant
84% of teens hospitalized for psychiatric care come from SPF
Children living without a fathers influence are 11x more likely to exhibit violent misbehaviors in school and/or social settings

54
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What perfect of SPF are on welfare or government assistant

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43%

55
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What perfect of teens hospitalized for psychiatric care come from SPF

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84%

56
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Blended family

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A family in which at leader one of the adults is a step parent

57
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What ratio of U.S. Families are blended family

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1 in 5

58
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What ratio of young people will become step children by 2020

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Between 1/3 and 1/2

59
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Statistics on kids living w original married parents

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74,63,55,45

60
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Born outside of marriage

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5,43

61
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W unmarried parents

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9,19,30,39

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