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| line of descent through both your parents’ sides of the family |
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| unmarried people in a romantic relationship living in the same residence |
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marriage in which individuals choose their partners based on
emotional ties and love |
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| norm, enforced in almost every human society, that marriage to, or sex with, members of your family unit is forbidden |
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| the most common family form in the premodern era, in which two or three generations lived under the same roof or at least in the same compound |
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| the basic unit in society, traditionally consisting of two parents raising their children, or any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family |
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| the family you are born into |
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| family you choose to belong to in order to reproduce |
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| type of marriage where two or more men marry two or more women |
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| lethal or non-lethal violence experienced by a spouse, ex-spouse, or cohabiting partner, boyfriend or girlfriend, or ex-boyfriend or girlfriend; commonly called “domestic violence” |
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| intimate partner violence |
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cultural forms that locate individuals in the culture by reference to their
families |
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| a child’s status when the man knows which children he has fathered, usually ensured by limiting sexual activity to marriage |
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| line of descent through your mother’s side of the family |
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| the most common type of marriage—marriage between two people |
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| adults of more than one generation sharing domestic space |
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| multigenerational households |
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| sex that is not related to marriage |
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| line of descent through your father’s side of the family |
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| rare form of polygamy in which one woman marries two or more men |
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| marriage between three or more people |
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| the most common form of polygamy, involving the marriage of one man to two or more women |
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