CFD 1450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Heredity, Miscarriage, Prenatal Development
CHAPTER 1: FAMILY AND MARRIAGE
Marriage:
• Recognized union between a man and a woman
• United sexually
• Cooperate economically
o Legal contract
• May give birth, adopt, or rear children
Family:
• Usually related by descent, marriage, remarriage, adoption, and affiliated kin
• Nuclear Family:
o Family in which you were raised
▪ Mom, dad, and siblings
• Extended family:
o Family related by descent
▪ Aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents
• Family of orientation:
o Everyone in the past
▪ Greats and ancestors
• Family of procreation:
o Family in the future
▪ Spouse and children
What influences how we individually define marriage and family?
• How raised
• Media
• Religion
Functions of Marriage and Families
• Source of intimate relationships
• A unit of economic cooperation and consumption
• Produce and socialize children
• Assigns social roles and status
Advantages to Living in Families
• Continuity as a result of emotional attachments, rights, and obligations
• Close proximity
• Familiarity
• Economic benefits
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Document Summary
Marriage: recognized union between a man and a woman, united sexually, cooperate economically, legal contract, may give birth, adopt, or rear children. What influences how we individually define marriage and family: how raised, media, religion. Functions of marriage and families: source of intimate relationships, a unit of economic cooperation and consumption, produce and socialize children, assigns social roles and status. Advantages to living in families: continuity as a result of emotional attachments, rights, and obligations, close proximity, familiarity, economic benefits. Three domains of human development: biosocial, brain and body change, cognitive, thought process and perceptual visuals, psychosocial, interpersonal relationships, families and friends. Nature through nurture: cannot divorce your genetics. 31% of all conceptions that occur will result in a living body: duplication, cells duplicate, division, cells divide, differentiation, cells start to move to where they have to go, they are specialized for certain organs. Prenatal development: periods of birth, germinal, embryonic, fetal. Early in pregnancy: before week 8 or 9.
