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| a descent system in which influence, wealth, and power are assigned to both sides of the family |
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| families composed of at least one formerly married spouse, the children of the previous marriage or marriages, and new offspring |
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| a theory of mate selection based on the idea that people marry those who provide the maximum need gratification when needs tend to be complementary rather than similar |
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| families consisting of a husband and wife, with or without children |
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| the norm of authority in the family in which decisions are equally divided between husband and wife |
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| a marriage norm requiring a person to mary someone from his or her own group |
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| a marriage norm requiring a person to marry someone from outside his or her own group |
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| a family that goes beyond the nuclear family to include other nuclear families and relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins |
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| a group of kin united by blood, marriage, or adoption who share a common residence for some part of their lives and assume reciprocal rights and obligations with regard to one another |
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| the nuclear family into which one was born and in which one was reared |
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| the nuclear family formed by marriage |
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| a form of polyandry where brothers are co-husbands |
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| a form of marriage in which several or many men are married to several or many women |
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| socially forbidden sexual relationships or marriage with certain close relatives |
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| the web of relationships among people linked by common ancestry, adoption, or marriage |
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| a family structure in which the wife dominates the husband |
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| a family structure in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother's line |
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| a family norm that newly married couples should live with the wife's family |
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| modified-extended family structure |
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| the family structure in which individual nuclear families retain considerable autonomy yet maintain connections with other nuclear families in the extended family structure |
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| the marriage of one man to one woman |
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| a family norm that newly married couples should establish residences separate from those of both sets of parents |
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| an arrangement in which two unmarried and unrelated adults share a common household or dwelling |
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| families in which two or more persons are related by blood, marriage, or adoption and who share a common residence |
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| a family structure in which the husband dominates the wife |
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| a family system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the father's line |
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| a family norm that newly married couples should live with the husband's family |
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| the marriage of one woman to more than one husband at the same time |
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| the marriage of one man or woman to more than one person of the opposite sex at the same time |
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| the marriage of one man to more than one wife at the same time |
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| Malinowski's idea that every society has a rule that every child should have a legitimate father to act as the child's protector, guardian, and representative in society |
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| serial or sequential monogamy |
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| marriage to a number of different spouses in succession, but only one at any given time |
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