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Family Relationships (Characteristics (Shared Living Space (Typically the…
Family Relationships
Characteristics
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Shared History & Future
A grandparent or parent would be apart of your past and future romantic relationships and children are apart of your future.
Defined Roles
Heterosexual couples tend to give roles to one another; the woman as the cook and the man as the main wage earner
Gay and Lesbian couples do not have these defined roles
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Family Types
Pluralistic
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Encouraged to express different attitudes and points of views and be open to communication while being supportive of one another
Protective
High in conformity, low in conversation
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Couple Types
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Separate
They share little information about one another, they go their own ways
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Live together, but see relationship as a convenience rather than love or closeness
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Traditional
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Do very little separately, do everything together
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Families in Culture, Gender, and Technology
Gender
Both can initiate and end a relationship. In Iran, only the man can end it
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Culture
In some cultures, once there are children, the parents cannot separate