FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Extended Family, Nuclear Family, Canada 2011 Census

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Skakoon- Sparling

Document Summary

Not a definition of the family per se. Each province and territory also has legislation about families: legal definitions tend to change over time, with new court rulings and legislation and also depend on your field, applied context: enforceable legislated laws-adoption, health plan coverage. Normative: shared by majority of people in a country or region, practice or action regarded as socially legitimate and approved, sometimes legal definitions are out of synch with social norms. Definitions of family have broadened: applied context: social norms in a society-example: interracial marriage was legal before accepted. A hunch (ex: having sex more often improves marital satisfaction: must be measurable (ex: asking about marital satisfaction on a scale of 1-10, context: research design and theory development. Basic definition of family: a group of people who share a legal bond or a blood bond. Nuclear family: parents and their children living in the same home.