SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Matrifocal Family, Matriarchy, Total Fertility Rate
Document Summary
Valuable insights about the relativity of human behaviour can be gained from understanding variations in family practices by culture & throughout history. Adoptive children have a contract between them and the parents. Policy makers have a difficult time asking about the family today because people think its only blood. Doesn"t have to be either of them could be godparents etc. Nuclear household with only parents & their children. Was ideal in the victorian era (when it emerged) Extended at least 3 generations living together in one household. Census family married couples with or without children living with them, or single parent or grandparent sharing a house with only their children or grandchildren. Economic persons related by blood ties, marriage or legal adoption, who are sharing a house. Household related or unrelated people sharing a house. In some cultures, brides are brought to the groom"s family home to live with his parents & unmarried siblings.
