FMSC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Family, Voluntary Childlessness, Nuclear Warfare
27 Feb 2018
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Extended families may be formed in two ways: through marriage (conjugal) and through blood relationships (consanguine). Conjugal extended families are formed through polygamy, either polygyny (having more than one wife or polyandry (having more than 1 husband). In cultures like ours that practice monogamous marriage, extended families can be formed only among bloodlines. The extended family in this case may take the form of immediate family plus any other relatives in the household, such as a grandparent or uncle. Our marriage system might be called serial monogamy because one person may have several spouses over his or her lifetime. With the rise of blended families, a child is quite likely to have step- brothers or sisters, half- brothers or sisters, all living within the same house. Step siblings are created by marriage, half siblings are formed by birth. Serial monogamy (or modified polygamy) is a series of several marriages or spouses within and across your lifetime.
