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The document provides an overview of families and intimate relationships. It discusses different types of families including nuclear, extended, monogamous, and polygamous families. It also examines kinship patterns, authority structures, and trends in household composition in the United States over time. Functional, conflict, interactionist, and feminist views of studying families are introduced. Trends in marriage, divorce, and diverse lifestyles such as cohabitation and remaining single are also summarized.
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Defining FamilyLaw and SciencePeople related by blood, marriage or adoption.U.S. Census BureauTwo or more persons who share a household and who are related by blood, marriage or adoption.
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Which of These Is a Family?A husband and wife and their offspring.A single woman and her three children.A 52-year-old woman and her adoptive mother.A man, his daughter, and the daughter’s son.An 84-year-old widow and her dog, Fido.A man and all of his ancestors back to Adam and Eve.
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Which of These Is a Family?Two lesbians and their children from a previous marriage of one woman and a previous relationship of the other woman with a male friend.Two children, their divorced parents, the current spouses of their divorced parents, and the children from previous marriages of their stepparents.
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Which of These Is a Family?Two adult male cousins living together.A 77-year-old man and his best friend.A childless husband and wife who live 1,000 miles apart. A divorced man, his girlfriend, and her child.Both sets of parents of a deceased married couple. Six adults and their 12 young children, all living together in a communal fashion.
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American Households, 2000
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Facts: U.S. Families TodayFewer people are currently married.People are postponing marriage.Cohabitation has emerged as a lifestyle intermediate between marriage and
singlehood.
Some cohabitants maintain gay and lesbian domestic partnerships.
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Facts: U.S. Families TodayThe number of people living alone is substantial.Many adult children live with their parents.A much higher proportion of older men than older women are married.
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Facts: U.S. Families TodayParenthood is increasingly postponed and fertility has declined.More births are to unmarried mothers than in the past.There are now fewer children and more elderly.Divorce rates have stabilized, but remain high.
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Facts: U.S. Families TodayRemarriage rates have declined, but remain high.Most children live in two parent households.Over the last five years the proportion of children living in singleparent families has stabilized.
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Facts: U.S. Families TodayThere is considerable variation in children’s living arrangements.Children are more likely to live with a grandparent today than in the recent past.Most parents are working parents.Children are more likely than the general population or the elderly to be living in poverty.
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New Definition of FamilyAny sexually expressive or parent–child or other kin relationship in which people related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption:
Form an economic unit and care for any young.
Consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group.
Commit to maintaining that group over time.
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Marriages and Families:
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Explain these key concepts: families, kinship, family of orientation, family of procreation, extended family, and nuclear family.
As the nature of family life has changed in high-, middle-, and low-income nations, the issue of what constitutes a “family” continues to be widely debated. In the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Article 16, adopted by the United Nations (1948), the family is defined as follows:
· Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality, or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
· Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
· The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the States.
According to this declaration, the social institution of family must be protected in all societies because family is the “natural” and “fundamental” group unit of society. Although families differ widely around the world, they also share certain common concerns in their everyday lives. Food, clothing, shelter, and child care are necessities important to all people.
In the United States the Census Bureau defines a family as consisting of two or more people who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and residing in the same housing unit. (The Census Bureau specifies that one person in the household unit will be identified as the “householder.”) For many years the standard sociological definition of family has been a group of people who are related to one another by bonds of blood, marriage, or adoption and who live together, form an economic unit, and bear and raise children. Some people believe that this definition should not be expanded—that social approval should not be extended to other relationships simply because the persons in those relationships wish to consider themselves to be a family. However, other people challenge this definition because it simply does not match the reality of family life in contemporary society, particularly at a time when only about half of adults ages eighteen and older are married in the legal usage of the term.
Today’s families include many types of living arrangements and relationships, including single-parent households, unmarried couples, LGBTQ couples with or without children, and multiple generations (such as grandparent, parent, and child) living in the same household (Figure 15.1). To accurately reflect these changes in family life, some sociologists believe that we need a more encompassing definition of what constitutes a family. Accordingly, families are relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group. Sexual expression and parent–chil.
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Family
The document discusses definitions of family across cultures, comparing traditional ideals of family in Japan and the United States, as well as marriage and divorce rates between the two countries. Japan traditionally valued multigenerational households with inheritance passed through sons, while the US ideal involved married couples with children, though modern families vary in both places. Divorce rates are higher in the US at around 3.4 per 1,000 people compared to around 1 in 4 marriages ending in divorce in Japan.
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1) The passage discusses definitions of family from the US Census Bureau and sociologists, noting that sociologists define family more broadly to include non-nuclear families.
2) It describes how the traditional family structure in America has changed from extended families before the Industrial Revolution to nuclear families after, and now to more diverse structures.
3) Functionalists view the family as an institution that fulfills important functions for society like childrearing while conflict theorists see the family as a site of gender inequality and competition over resources.
Marriage
This document discusses different types of marriage and kinship structures. It defines marriage as a socially sanctioned union between individuals for the purposes of establishing a household and having children. The main types of marriage discussed are polygyny, polyandry, monogamy, and group marriage. Kinship is defined as the bonds between family members through blood or marriage, and important kinship groups mentioned include clans. The document also discusses exogamy, endogamy, and homogamy in terms of mate selection, as well as defining cohabitation as two unmarried individuals living together long-term.
Sociology Chapter 11 family and marriage
This document summarizes key concepts about families and marriage from a textbook. It defines what constitutes a family and describes how family structures have changed over time and varied across societies. Nuclear and extended families are defined. The functions of families are described as providing social and emotional support, reproduction, regulating sexuality, transmitting status, and economic roles. Theoretical perspectives on families including conflict theory and symbolic interactionism are overviewed. Characteristics of American families and marriage practices such as monogamy, polygamy, and factors in choosing a mate are outlined. Reasons for the high divorce rate in the US are presented along with trends in blended, single-parent, childless, and dual-employed families and increasing rates of cohabitation
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Family and marriage
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Same Sex Parents
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Chapter 1 introduction to the family
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- 2. 12 THE FAMILY AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS
- 10. Global View of the Family Figure 12.1: Types of Family Households in the United States, 1980, 1997, and 2010
- 16. Marriage and Family Figure 12.2: Percentage of People Aged 20 to 24 Ever Married, Selected Countries
- 17. Marriage and Family Households by Size: 1970 to 2000 Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2001. The Population Profile of the United States: 2000 . Figure 5-2. (Internet Release) accessed at http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/profile2000.html#cont. 5 or more people 4 people 3 people 2 people 1 person 1970 1980 1990 2000
- 23. Marriage and Family Figure 12.3: Rise of One-Parent Families among Whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians or Pacific Islanders in the United States
- 24. Marriage and Family Birth Rates for Married and Unmarried Females Source: Office of the President. 2000. Economic Report of the President: Transmitted to the Congress, February 2000 . Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, Chart 5-3 on p. 171. Live births per 1,000 females 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Percent of all births Births to unmarried females (right scale) Birth rate for unmarried females 15-44 (left scale) Birth rate for married females 15-44 (left scale)
- 25. Marriage and Family Births to Unmarried Women, by Country: 1980 to 1998 Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2001. Statistical Abstract of the United States 2001 . Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Table 1331 on p. 836. Also accessible at http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/stat-ab01.html. 38 12 United Kingdom 54 40 Sweden 21 4 Netherlands 1 1 Japan 9 4 Italy 14 8 Germany 40 11 France 45 33 Denmark 28 13 Canada 33 18 United States 1998 1980 Percent of Live Births, Born to Unmarried Women
- 27. Marriage and Family Grandchildren in Grandparent’s Homes by Presence of Parents Source: Office of the President, 2000. Economic Report of the President: Transmitted to the Congress, February 2000 . Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, Chart 5-5 on p. 174. 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1970 1980 1990 1998 Neither parent present Only father present Only mother present Both parents present Percent of children under 18 who live with a grandparent
- 28. Marriage and Family Number of Victims Murdered by an Intimate Partner Source: Callie Marie Rennison for the Bureau of Justice Statitics. 2001. Intimate Partner Violence . NCJ 178247, p. 1. Accessible at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv.pdf. 2,000 1,600 1,200 800 400 0 1976 1982 1988 1994 1998 Male victims Female victims
- 29. Marriage and Family Rate of Intimate Partner Violence by Age, 1993--1998 Source: Callie Marie Rennison for the Bureau of Justice Statitics. 2001. Figure 6 in Intimate Partner Violence . NCJ 178247. Accessible at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv.pdf. 25 20 15 10 5 0 12-15 16-19 20-24 25-34 35-49 50-64 65 or older Male Female Intimate partner violence per 1,000 females or males in each age category
- 33. Divorce Figure 12.4: Trends in Marriage and Divorce in the United States, 1920-2001