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| a social group whose members are bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties, or a combination of all three. |
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| How the U.S. Census Bureau defines family |
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| as two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption living in the same household. |
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| a large group of relatives, usually including at least three generations living either in one household or in close proximity. |
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| defined as relatives or relations, usually those related by common descent. |
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| are those included in the family but are not related by common descent. |
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| a heterosexual couple with one or more children living in a single household. About 21% of households are married couples with children at home. |
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| marrying someone with similar race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, or nationality. |
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| marrying outside one's own race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, or nationality. |
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| marrying (or being in a relationship with) one person at a time. It is considered the only legal form of marriage in modern western culture. |
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| a system of marriage that allows people to have more than one spouse at a time, is practiced among some subcultures around the world. |
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| marriage that allows men to have multiple wives. (common form of polygamy) |
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| allows women to have multiple husbands. (a common form of polygamy) |
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| Structural Functionalism's views on family |
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| as keeping society running smoothly by producing and socializing children, instrumental and emotional support, and sexual control. |
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| Conflict Theory's view on family |
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| Conflict theory (which sees society revolving around conflict over scarce resources) says conflict within the family is also about the competition for resources. |
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| Symbolic Interaction (family) |
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| looks at social dynamics and interactions that create and sustain families, and ways that our experiences of family bonds are socially created. |
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| means ‘like marries like.’ We tend to choose mates similar to us in class, race, ethnicity, age, religion, education, and even levels of attractiveness. |
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| the tendency to marry or have relationships with people in close geographic proximity. A college is an example of such a location. |
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Elderly's functions in families.
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| Life expectancy is creating more elderly. About 10% of elderly are below the poverty line. Elderly care is no longer a primary function of family: over 40% enter a nursing home. |
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| a common family violence, includes behaviors abusers use to gain and maintain power over victims. Abuse is physical, verbal, financial, sexual, and psychological. |
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Rates of domestic violence are about equal across racial and ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and religious groups. People are more likely to be killed or attacked by family members.
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| the caregiver fails to provide adequate nutrition, sufficient clothing or shelter, or hygienic and safe living conditions. (one kind of abuse children encounter) |
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| proscribed sexual contact between family members; a form of child abuse when it occurs between a child and a caregiver (another kind of abuse children encounter) |
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| How many percent of marriages ended in divorced in 2002? |
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| How many pecent of households are occupied by couples who are cohabitating? |
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| living together as a romantically involved, unmarried couple |
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| communal living arrangements. |
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