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| line of descent through both your parents' sides of the family |
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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 pre-modern era, in which 2 or 3 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 2 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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| the family you choose to belong to in order to reproduce |
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| type of marriage where 2 or more men carry 2 or more women |
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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 2 people |
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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 2 or more men |
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| marriage between 3 or more people |
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| the most common form of polygamy, involving the marriage of one man to 2 or more women |
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| unmarried people in a romantic relationship living in the same residence |
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| multigenerational households |
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| adults of more than one generation sharing domestic space |
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| sex that is not related to marriage |
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| intimate partner violence |
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| lethal or non-lethal violence experienced by a spouse, ex-spouse, or cohabiting partner, bf or gf, or exs; commonly called "domestic violence" |
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