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Cards Term Family Definition A group of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption, live together, are an economic unit, and bear and raise children. Term Kinship Definition refers to a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Term Family of Orientation Definition is the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place. Term Family of procreaition Definition is the family a person forms by having or adopting children. Term Extended Family Definition is composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household. Term Nuclear Family Definition is composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives. Term Postmodern perspective Definition Families are diverse and fragmented. Boundaries between workplace and home are blurred. Family problems are related to cyberspace and consumerism in an age characterized by high-tech “haves’ and “have-nots.” Term Polyandry Definition one woman 2 men Term Plygyny Definition one man 2 women Term Blended family Definition Families that consist of a husband, wife, and children from previous marriages and (if any) children from the new is called a blended family.