SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Premarital Sex, Noncustodial Parent, Social Forces
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40% of homicides occur within family or intimate relationships. Nuclear family: consists of a cohabitation man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. Traditional nuclear family: nuclear family in which the husband work outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home. Fewer than 39% of canadian families in 2011 were nuclear families. Functionalists believe the the nuclear family provides a basis for ve main functions: Polygamy: expands the nuclear family horizontally by adding one or more spouses (usually women) to the household. Extended family: extends the nuclear family vertically by adding another generation (one of more of the spouses" parents) to the household. Marriage: traditionally de ned, it is a socially approved, presumably long-term sexual and economic unit between a man and a woman; it involves reciprocal rights and obligations between spouses and between parents and children.
