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__**Family**__

Stages of Family Life - Courtship: Young people choose their own mates and delay marriage until they have financial security and the experience needed to select a suitable partner - Ideal and Real Marriage: Optimistic views of "happyily-ever-after" leads to disappointment in marriage - Child Rearing: Adults in the U.S. identify raising children as one of life's greatest joys

U.S. Families: Class, Race, Gender - Social Class frames a family's financial security and range of opportunities - Over the course of the 20th century, ethnicity mattered less and less in a marriage, but race remains a more formidable consideration - Every marriage is two different relationships: a woman's marriage and a man's marriage, not two equal partners. Patriarchy has weakened but we still expect men to be older and taller than their wives and have more prominent careers.

Transitions and Problems in Family Life/Alternative Family Forms - By 1998, more than four in ten marriages were ending in divorce - 23% of U.S. families with children under 18 have only one parent in the household - Many families are guilty of family violence: emotional, physical, or sexual abuse of a family member by another

__Vocab Terms__:

Family: a social institution found in all societies that unite people into cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of children

Kinship: a social bond based on blood, marriage, or adoption

Family Unit: a social group of two or more people, related by blood, marriage, or adoption, who usually live together

Marriage: a legally sanctioned relationship, usually involving economic cooperation well as sexual activity and childbearing, that people expect to be enduring

Extended Family: a family init that includes parents and children, as well as other kin

Nuclear Family: a family unit composed of one or two parents and their children

Endogamy: marriage between people of the same social categories

Exogamy: marriage between people of different social categories

Monogamy: marriage uniting two partners

Polygamy: marriage that unites three or more people

Polygyny: marriage uniting one male and two or more females

Polyandry: marriage uniting one female and two or more males

Patrilcality: a residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the husband's family

Matrilocality: a residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the wife's family

Neolocality: a residential pattern in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents

Descent: the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations

Patrilineal Descent: a system tracing kinship through men

Matrilineal Descent: a system tracing kinship through women

Bilateral Descent: a system tracing kinship through both men and women

Incest Taboo: a cultural norm forbidding sexual relations or marriages between certain relatives

Homogamy: marriage between people with the same social characteristics

Family Violence: emotional, physical, or sexual abuse of one family member bye another

Cohabitation: the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple