Family Flashcards
(19 cards)
Nuclear Family
parents and their children sharing a house
Extended Family
several generations/adult siblings with spouses and children sharing a house
Modified extended family
several generations to live ned each other and maintain close social/economic contact (heavily involved)
census family
married couple an children, common law and children, one parent family and child living in same house
monogamy
one spouse
polygamy
one than one spouse at same time
polygyny
male has more than one wife
polyandry
female has mire than one husband
arranged marriage
parents/family members recommend a marriage partner for individual who has choice t marry or not
forced arriage
forcing someone to get married against their will
family ideal
patriarchal, parents married, heterosexual, dependant children, not gov economically dependant
cohabitation in Canada
common law unions, common in Quebec
Declining fertility rate- early Canada
urbanization/industrialization- child labour laws, mandatory and free schooling for children, health of mother/well being of children - condoms/ abortafacians
Declining fertility rate- mid century to present
controlled family planning (counselling on birth control ILL 1969), abortions made accessible and oral contraceptives now legally - 1969, women working full time and choosing smaller family sizes
Divorce
1968, included 3 yer separation provision, later reduced to one year, 38% all marriages end today,
Moynihan
social problems in African American communities owing to pathological matriarchy - black women making more money than men, undercut mans role in family - domestic violence, substance abuse and crime
DuBois
matriarchal Black families were OUTCOME not cause of racial oppression / poverty (men in jail)
William Julius Wilson
if black women didn’t wok to provide for th family who would ?
Patricia Hill Collins
Idea North American Family (father works, mom SAH) = upper middle class arrangement- never applied to POC
