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What is a family

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The family is the most basic social institution in society

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Family

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A relatively perms arm group of people connected by ancestral lineage, marriage, or adoption

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Types of family organizations

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  1. Nuclear family
  2. Extended family
  3. Modified extended family
  4. Kinship groups
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Nuclear family

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  • consists of parents and kids
  • they life together but apart from other family members
  • people in N.F. Actually belong to two families
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What two families do nuclear families consist of?

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Family of orientation

Family of procreation

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Family of orientation

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Family people belong to as a family, where you receive your initial orientation into society

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Family of procreation

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Family of marriage

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Extended family

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  • family members of several generations who share a household (grandparents, cousins aunts, uncles)
  • they are economically and emotionally blind to one another
  • there are two types of extended family
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Two types of extended family

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Joint extended

Fertile extended family

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Joint extended family

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Common is rural America: children may stay on farm land after marriage; build own house; help work the land

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Vertical extended family

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Aging parents living w adult children and their families

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Modified extended family

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Different generations do not necessarily live under the same roof but keeping contact is important

1) family always at your house
2) family connected via social media

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Kinship group

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-a complex network of people
-social relationship based on a common ancestry, marriage, and or adoption
(In laws, God parents)
-kG include all your relatives, this who you see often and those who you only see at events

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Four ways related to people

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Consanguineal
Affinal
Adoptive
Fictive

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Consaguineal

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People related by biological ties (parents kids blood relatives)

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Affinal

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People related by marriage (spouses blood relatives)

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Adoptive

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People related through adoptive process

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Fictive

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People related by spiritual ties or ritual or friendship (FOD parents, close family friends you call uncle/aunt)

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4 patters of residency

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Patrilocal
Matrilocal
Bi-local
Neo-local

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Patrilocal

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Married couples live by husbands family

2/3 of the worlds societies practice this pattern

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Matrilocal

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Married couples live by wife’s family

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Bi-local

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Husband and wife have equal say in which family they live by

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Neo-local

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Common in industrialized societies

Family of marriage establishes their home without regard of where their families of orientation live

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What is the steady rate of divorce

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51%

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What percentage of the adult population is currently divorced
13%
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What percent of adults have been divorced at least once
25%
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In the age group of 35-45 what percent has been divorced
30%
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What four factors contribute to divorce
Teenage marriage Dissimilar social backgrounds Ease of obtaining a divorce Dual-earner families
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Teenage marriage
Divorce rates are 2/3 loser among women who marry after the age of 25 (compared to teens) Pregnant teens have a 72% divorce rate
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Pregnant teens divorce rate
72%
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Dissimilar social backgrounds
Differences in values or lifestyle prior to marriage can magnify problems
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Ease of obtaining a divorce
Changing laws "No fault" divorces The social stigma attached to divorce has lessened
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Dual earner families
It's easier to leave an unhappy marriage when both families are able to support themselves Devotion to the pursuit of careers leads many to grow apart
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Four problems associated w divorce
Feelings of personal failure Loneliness and financial hardships A child's feeling of grief, guilt, and abandonment Child custody issues
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 are living in a home w 2 married parents in their first marriage?
45%
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 lived in a home w two parents in their first marriage in 1960
74%
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 lived in a home w two parents in their first marriage in 1980
63%
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What percent of U.S. Kids under 18 lived in a home w two parents in their first marriage in 2000
55%
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What percentage of kids were born outside of marriage in 1960
5%
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What percent are born outside of marriage in 2015
43%
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What percent of children today are living w an unmarried parent
39%
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What percent of children were living w an unmarried parent in 1960
9%
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What percent of children were living w an unmarried parent in 1980
19%
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What percent of children were living w an unmarried parent in 1998
30%
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What percent of single parent households headed by mothers
84%
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What percent of single mothers were never married
49%
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What percent of the 1.6 million children were born out of wedlock were to females under 20? (2013)
17%
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What percent of children born outside of wedlock were born to women 20-40 (2013)
37%
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What women are more likely to have children outside marriage than other racial groups
Blacks
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What percent of births to black women were non marital births
72%
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What percent more than 42000 adoptions were to single females (2000)
33%
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What percent of more than 42000 adoptions were to single fathers (2000)
3%
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Problems of the single parent family
Life in SPF can be very "rich" emotionally but some problems still exist Providing adequate childcare is difficult if the parent is employed 43% of SPF are on welfare or gov assistant 84% of teens hospitalized for psychiatric care come from SPF Children living without a fathers influence are 11x more likely to exhibit violent misbehaviors in school and/or social settings
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What perfect of SPF are on welfare or government assistant
43%
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What perfect of teens hospitalized for psychiatric care come from SPF
84%
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Blended family
A family in which at leader one of the adults is a step parent
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What ratio of U.S. Families are blended family
1 in 5
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What ratio of young people will become step children by 2020
Between 1/3 and 1/2
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Statistics on kids living w original married parents
74,63,55,45
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Born outside of marriage
5,43
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W unmarried parents
9,19,30,39

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