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Family

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A social institution that unites individual in the cooperative groups that care for one another including kids

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Kinship

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Refers to a social bonds based on common ancestry marriage adoption and you guys individuals and families

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Nuclear family

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One or two parents and their children

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Extended family

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Parents and children and grandparents aunts uncles cousins who live close to one another and operate as a family

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Marriage

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Waffle relationship usually involving economic cooperation sexual activity in childbirth

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Families of affinity

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With or without legal blood ties or children who feel they belong together and design themselves as a family

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Sociological perspective

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Examines not only behavior of individuals and families but takes of your Health family life is shaped explores how patterns a family life are linked income education gender and r

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How are US families change it

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Trends include increasing number of people living together without being married people man later and single moms

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Cohabitation

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The sharing of a household by unmarried couple

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Critics of cohabitation

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Men are more easily walk out on women and children men run the risk of losing legal rights to raise their children

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After three years cohabitating couples go through directions

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Getting married splitting up or continuing to live together

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Why are people Mary later

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Young people enrolling in college and graduate school women who join the labor force improvement in birth control and the availability of legal abortion economic insecurity

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Consequence of delayed marriage

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Independent of their parents less parental input and a choice a partner for you to form relationships such as same-sex or interracial unions

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Said the African-American family was approaching crisis because of the fathers who left the children and mothers behind this threaten the African-American community with a cycle of poverty

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Eleanor Holmes Norton

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Argues that the breakdown of African-American family is the result of long-term racism which results in discrimination and jobs education housing

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William Julius Wilson

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There are simply not enough good jobs to allow African-Americans with disadvantages urban under class to support a family blaming the victim

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Most people who receive public assistance or white

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Class position is a powerful force that defines family life

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20% of marriages end by separation dissolution divorce within five years

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Within 20 years half of marriages break up

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No fault divorce

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No one hast to take the blame to get the divorce Your reconcilable differences

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Alan Parkman

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A weakness and no-fault divorce is that the policy ignores cultural capital which includes skills screwing that increase a persons earning power

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Deadbeat dad’s parents punishment act

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Making a serious crime to refuse to provide support payments to a child residing in another state or move to the United States in order to avoid making payments

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Blended families

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Families in which children have some combination of biological parents and stepparents

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Challenges a blended families
New household rules routines building relationships with new siblings adjustments and establishing relationships with unfamiliar children
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Full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution
Mandates that any contracts including marriage performed in one state must be recognized by all states
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Politics and same-sex marriage debates
Conservatives argue that such families do not offer the best selling to his children Liberals counter that all people who form committed relationships weather gay or straight I want ties to be recognized socially legally they support same sex marriage
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Louise brown
First baby conceived via reproductive technology in a laboratory in England
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In vitro fertilization
Uniting egg and sperm in a laboratory
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Surrogate motherhood
Arrangement by which one woman carries embarrass a child for another woman
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Baby M Williams store and his wife was unable to bear children agreed to pay Mary Beth with her to bear children can
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Cultural lag
When scientific discoveries advance more quickly than or ideas about acceptable ways to use them
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Structural functional theory on family
Family is the foundation of all societies
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George Murdock
Families exist in the world because they perform four major tasks central for operation and society
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George Murdock four major task essential for operation of society for families
Families are the means For reproduction Create a stable and caring environment Engage in economic cooperation Provide emotional support
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Symbolic interaction theory family
Views the family less as a society institution and more as the ongoing interactions of individuals help family members understand each other
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Limitations of symbolic interaction approach
Although family life is variable number Patterns are common like Social class
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Social conflict theory on the family
Family plays in important part in the operation of society Points To how The family is linked to patterns of social inequality
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Friedrich Engels
Family life comes from being among will 64 as a strategy allowing them to pass the property from one generation to the next and operates to protect inheritance
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Social conflict theory suggests
That the path toward an egalitarian Society requires the elimination of the family
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Feminist theory on the family
How the family is linked to gender stratification which is the social domination of women by men
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Fredrick Engels linked the family to what
Class inequality 1st defining men heads of family 2nd Household wealth became mens wealth 3rd men in control of womens sexual behavior 4th men expect woman to take care of the home
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Engels Concluded that the family turns women into a sexual economic property of men
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Limitation on Feminist theory
Men and women have become more equal and the family worlds both men and women providing income to the family
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Conservative views on the family
Family is the most important social institution because it does the most to instill basic values support family values
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Liberals view on the family
The different people favor different kinds of families or no family at all family diversity cohabitation single-parent families blended families and singlehood
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Feminist view on the family
Traditional family’s limit women’s opportunity to earn a living and trap some women in abusive relationships
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The radical left view on the family
Family and social equality family at least in its current form perpetuate social inequality The end of the family as we know it
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Radical left you on the family social inequality Engels described it in three ways
Family perpetuates class stratification in generations Family helps perpetuate gender stratification Traditional ideals about family life serve to promote conventional heterosexual relationships
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Radical left family life solution
Increasing social equality as possible only by radically reconstructing the family as it exists today
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Liberal view family solution
Encouraged tolerance for all types of families including same-sex marriage increase women’s economic opportunities enforce anti-discrimination laws
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Conservative view family solution
Encourage the spread of culture of marriage encourage people to view commitment as a positive way abolish no-fault divorce laws discourage couples from living together.

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