Marriage

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Marriage Family
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Marriage Family

• What is a family?
• People who consider themselves related by blood,
  marriage, or adoption
• Nuclear or Extended
• Family of orientation
• Family of procreation

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Marriage Family

• Functions of the family
• Economic production
• Socialization of children
• Care of the sick and aged
• Recreation
• Reproduction

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Marriage Family

• Marriage
• A groups approved mating arrangements
• Often marked by a public ritual

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Marriage Family

• Establish societal patterns
• Mate selection
• Endogamy
• Exogamy
• Incest Taboo
• Helps families avoid role confusion
• Extends social networks
• Maintain strong gene pool

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Marriage Family

• Establish societal patterns
• Mate selection
• Endogamy
• Exogamy
• Descent
• Bilateral, matrilineal, patrilineal
• Inheritance
• How to pass property from one generation to the
  next?
• Authority

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The Family Life Cycle

• Romantic love
• What does love mean?
• Marriage
• Social channels to marriage
• Homogamy
• Arranged marriage

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Balancing Work and Family in the US

• Institutional challenges for parents
• Corporate culture that assumes workers have no
  competing responsibilities
• The glass ceiling
• The Mommy track

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Balancing Work and Family in the US

• Institutional challenges for parents
• Corporate culture that assumes workers have no
  competing responsibilities
• Public policies that do not support families
• Family leave policies Some workers have limited
  rights to unpaid leave, paid leave is offered in
  only 5 states for mothers, 1 state for fathers
• No benefits for part-time workers
• No public child care

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The Family Life Cycle

• Childbirth Child Rearing
• How are kids taken care of?
• Daycare
• Nannies
• Stay-at-home parent
• Relative

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Balancing Work and Family in the US

• The Second Shift
• In households where both parents work, who does
  the housework?
• Largely, its women

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The Family Life Cycle

• Empty Nest
• Last child leaves home
• Adultolescents
• Adult children returning home to live with parents

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Trends in US Families

• Postponing marriage and childbirth
• Cohabitation
• Unmarried mothers
• Grandparents as parents
• The sandwich generation