X - Chp 9 Terms - Families

Question 1

marriage

Answer 1

A cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child.

Question 2

traditional nuclear family

Answer 2

A nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home.

Question 3

polygamy

Answer 3

Expands the nuclear family “horizontally” by adding one or more spouses (usually women) to the household.

Question 4

extended family

Answer 4

Expands the nuclear family “vertically” by adding another generation—one or more of the spouses’ parents—to the household.

Question 5

nuclear family

Answer 5

Traditionally defined, a socially approved, ideally long-term sexual and economic union between a man and a woman that involves reciprocal rights and obligations between spouses and between parents and children.

Question 6

blended family

Answer 6

Includes the children of one or both spouses from a previous marriage.

Question 7

child support

Answer 7

Money paid by the noncustodial parent to the custodial parent for the purpose of supporting the children of a separated marital, cohabiting, or sexual relationship.

Question 8

total fertility rate

Answer 8

The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she had the same number of children as do women in each age cohort in a given year.

Question 9

crude divorce rate

Answer 9

The number of divorces that occur in a year for every 1000 people in the population.

Question 10

crude marriage rate

Answer 10

The number of marriages that occur in a year for every 1000 people in the population.