FSHD 257 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Lesbian, Endogamy, United States
1 Apr 2019
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Marriage & family over time: as we study family patterns and issues, we need to understand that our attitudes and beliefs about families both affect and distort our views, experience v. expertise, ongoing social controversy. De ning family: census de nitions, family: a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together in a household , household: one or more people everyone living in a housing unit makes up a household . Types of families: family of orientation or origin the family in which we grow up, nuclear a couple and their children, extended, family of procreation the family formed through marriage and childbearing, family of cohabitation the family formed through living or cohabiting with another person. Four functions of the traditional family: economic support from all family members, education & socialization of children, providing for and taking care of the elderly and sick, religious instruction.
