Family Types

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Family Types

• Latino/as at Home

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Terminology
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Authority

• The right to command or act

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Gentrix

• Biological mother of child.

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Mater

• Socially recognized mother of the children, but
  not necessarily the gentrix.

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Genitor

• Biological father of child.

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Pater

• Socially recognized father of child, but not
  necessarily the genitor.

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Lineage

• A corporate group who claim descent from a common
  ancestor and can trace genealogy through known
  links to that ancestor.

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Patrilineal Descent

• Decent traced through the male line for purposes
  of group membership.

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Matrilineal Descent

• Decent traced through the female line for
  purposes of group membership.

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Unilineal Descent

• Established kinship exclusively through either
  the mother or the fathers line

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Family

• A complex concept that entail at least the
  structure of the kin group, the function of
  family/kin members to one another, its
  sentimental or emotional dimensions, and its
  durability through time.

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Nuclear Family

• A normally co-residential family unit made up of
  a heterosexual couple and their children.

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Extended Family

• A large household group, related by ties of
  descent, marriage, or other durable
  relationships.
• A set of mutually dependent and obligated kin
  that extends beyond the nuclear family.

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Bilateral Family

• A system in which a person relates to close
  relatives on both mother and fathers side.

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Blended Family

• Families formed through combining the children of
  two or more marriages (or other sexual
  relationships).

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Neolocal Resident

• Residence of a couple after marriage in which the
  married couple forms a household in an
  independent location.

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Patrilocal Residence

• Residence of a couple after marriage in which the
  married couple lives in the locality associated
  with the husbands relatives.

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Matrilocal Residence

• Residence of a couple after marriage in which the
  married couple lives in the locality associated
  with the wifes relatives

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Monogamy

• The taking of a single spouse in marriage

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Serial Monogamy

• The taking of more than one spouse in ones
  lifetime, but dissolving one monogamous marriage
  before beginning another.

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Dysfunctional

• Not operating as it should.
• When applied to social relations, they use of
  this term assumes that norms, roles, and/or
  actions cause relations to not work as they
  should.

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Rights of Passage

• An event which marks important changes in the
  status of individuals or age-sets, such as birth,
  adulthood, marriage, or death.

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Family, Marriage and Kinship

• Family formation varies among Latino families.
• Different from undocumented workers than those
  born in the U.S.

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• Embodied within these identities are such
  concepts as respeto (respect), especially for
  elders, for motherhood, and for male heads.
• Also related in this context are ideas of
  machismo (masculinity) and responsibility.

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la casa and la familia

• Household (la casa) is a residential unit with a
  varied membership.
• It includes people who live together and is the
  unit of genetic reproduction, economic
  production, sharing and/or consumption.

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• Family (la familia) is a system of kinship
  affiliation, one in which people are related on a
  real or fictive kinship basis and distinguished
  from non-kin.
• Members of la familia may be located in another
  country.
• Made up of nuclear and extended families

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Mexican-American Families

• The ease of communication between the U.S. and
  Mexico, the economic ties which exist, the
  transfer of money and other factors have led to
  creation of sub-groups.
• This has also changes the Mexican-American family
  in many ways.

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Positive

• The familia has been of great service to new and
  old migrants.
• Information, monies, cultural events.

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Negative

• Young people find la familia structure to
  structured and hard to conform to American
  Standards.
• Different standards change the resepto of la
  familia roles
• Elders or parental roles.

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• Resources gained through an American nuclear
  familia system (individualistic norms) are not
  being shared with with the extended familia.

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Cuban Families

• The strong political and economic status of
  Cubans in America has resulted in the
  re-enforcement of a strong family unit and
  ideology.

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• The Cuban American household is more likely to
  include and extended family.
• This means that there is an older relative
  present on a full time basis who is significant
  in passing on language and traditional cultural
  patterns.

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Dominican Family

• Little as been written on the la familia because
  e most are undocumented workers.
• As with many Latino familia, Dominican familia
  are extended familia systems and friends.

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• Dominicans send more money home to support
  relatives.
• Because most men from the republic work in the
  U.S. the familia system has changed in their home
  country.
• Women take on head of household roles.