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Different types of family relationships and patterns - Coggle Diagram
Different types of family relationships and patterns
Composition
Nuclear family: a married couple and their unmarried children living together. Less than a quarter of the family households in the United States fit the model of the married heterosexual couple with their own children.
Extended Family: a family in which relatives live in the same home as parents and their children. Crises put less stress on family members, as more are present to provide assistance and support. Larger economic unit than a nuclear family.
Monogamy: a form of marriage in which an individual only has one partner.
Serial monogamy: a person may have several spouses in a lifetime, but only one spouse at a time.
Polygamy: a form of marriage where an individual has several husbands or wive simultaneously. In at least 32 countries, 5 percent of all women are in polygamous marriages.
Polygyny: the marriage of a man to more than one woman at the same time.
Polyandry: a woman may have more than one husband at the same time.
Kinship
Kinship: the state of being related to others.
Bilateral: both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Patrillineal: only the father's relatives are important in terms of property, inheritance, and emotional ties.
Matrilineal: only the mother's relatives are significant.
Authority:
Patriarchy: males are expected to dominate in all family decision making.
Matriarchy: women have greater authority than men.
Egalitarian: family in which spouses are regarded as equals.
Courtship and mate selection
Endogamy: specifies groups within which a spouse must be found and prohibits marriage with members of other groups.
Exogamy: requires mate selection outside certain groups, usually one's family or certain kinfolk.
Incest taboo: a social norm common to all societies prohibiting sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Homogamy: the conscious or unconscious tendency to select a mate with characteristics similar to one's own.
Child-Rearing
Adoption: the transfer of legal rights, responsibilities, and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Single-parent families: only one parent is present to care for the children.
Divorce is a big problem. In United States, the pattern of family life includes commitments bot to marriage and self-expression and personal growth.
Lesbian and gay relationships: In addition to marriage equality, the last few years have seen dramatic changes in legal discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people.
Perspectives on the family
Conflict theorists have argued the family contributes to societal injustice, denies women opportunities, and limits certain freedom.
Functionalists focus on the ways in which the family gratifies the needs of its members and contributes to social stability.
Interactionists focus on the face to face relationships in the family.
Femisists examine the role of the mother and wife, especially in the absence of an adult male.