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| A social institution that binds people together through blood, marriage, law, and/or social norms. Family members are generally expected to care for and support each other. |
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| The average number of children that a woman bears in her lifetime. |
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| A population in which the percentage that is age 65 and older is increasing relative to other age groups. |
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| A standard against which real cases can be compared. |
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| A critical set of potential social advantages, including the chance to live past the first year of life, to live interdependently in old age, and everything in between. |
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| Secure Parental Employment |
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| A situation in which at least one parent or guardian is employed full time. |
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| Work that involves "the production of the means of existence, of food, clothing, and shelter and the tools necessary for production" |
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| Work the involves bearing children, caregiving, managing households, and educating children. |
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| Norms requiring or encouraging people to choose a partner from a social category other than their own. |
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| Norms requiring or encouraging people to choose a partner from the same social category as their own. |
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| Low Technology Tribal Societies |
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| Hunting and gathering societies with technologies that do not create surplus wealth. |
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| Wealth beyond what is needed to meet basic human needs, such as food and shelter. |
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| Preindustrial arrangements in which a household acts as an armed unit and the head of the household acts as its military commander. The household is characterized by the presence of a nonhouseholder class, consisting of propertyless laborers and servants. |
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| The extent to which caregivers believe that their emotional balance, physical health, and social life, and finical status suffers because of their caregiver role. |
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| What are the functions of a family? |
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| Regulating Sexual Behavior, Replacing Members of Society Who Die, Socializing the Youth, Providing Care and Emotional Support, and Conferring Social Status. |
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| A family the only consists of parents and children. They can support themselves and divide the supplies evenly. |
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| Many generations living under the same roof. |
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