Family Terms
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- reasons for divorce
- the propensity for marriage (9/10 people eventually marry), the decline of time spent on family activities people are more individualistic and more selfish, reinvestment in other sexual passion lost when original passionate love expires, women's decreasing dependence on men for financial support, the burden of children, lack of extended family and neighbors support as a result of relocations, the courts and legal reasons (now you don't need adultery or violence to get one)
- spouse abuse
- 12% of intimate relationships endure at least one incident of this (physically), with 122/1000 women receiving it and 124/1000 men receiving it
- endogamy
- marriage between people of the same social category
- Economic Repercusssions of Divorce
- women suffer a 1/3 decrease in standard of living; men experience a 10-15% increase in the year following divorce
- polyandry
- a form of marriage uniting one female with two or more males
- descent
- a system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations
- polygyny
- a form of marriage uniting one male and two or more females
- family violence
- emotional, physical, or sexual abuse of one family member by another
- matrilocality
- when a married couple lives with or near the wife's family
- bilateral descent
- a system of tracing kinship through men and women
- incest taboo
- a cultural norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain kin
- neolocality
- when a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents
- social placement
- determined by birth (race, ethnicity, religion, and social class are all examples of this)
- courtship
- derived from the middle age phrase "courtly love", begins as group dating that gives way to couple dating.
- arranged marriages
- an alliance between extended families which effects the social standing of both
- patrilineal descent
- a system of tracing kinship through males
- exogamy
- marriage between people of different social categories
- romantic love
- experience of affection and sexual passion as the basis for marriage
- polygamy
- a form of marriage uniting 3 or more people
- patrilocality
- a residential pattern where a married couple lives with or near the husband's family
- matrilineal descent
- a system of tracing kinship through females
- impacts of child rearing on a relationship
- time, attention, freedom, money, and sleep
- battered children syndrome
- a modern expression of concern for children, as identified in 1962
- people who are more likely to get divorced
- people who marry young, lower social classes, shotgun marriages, drug and alcohol problems, dissimilar social backgrounds, successful career women, and those isolated from family/friend support
- monogamy
- a form of marriage joining 2 partners
- family
- the primary agent of socialization; also, the most violent group in society aside from the police and the military