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Family Issues

ESSAY ON FAMILY

• Everyone is brought up in a family context. The vast majority of adults have been married. Family and marriage patterns change within each society and culture.
• Family- a group of persons directly linked by kin connections. Adult members assume responsibility for children.
• Kinship- Connections between individuals established through marriage or through the lines of descent.
• Marriage – An approved union between 2 adults. Through marriage, 2 adults become a kin to one another.
• Nuclear Family- 2 adults living in the same dwelling with their own children.
• Extended Family- A group of three of more generations.
• Monogamy – A man or a woman are married to only 1 adult at any one time.
• Polygamy – A husband of wife is allowed to have more than one spouse(This is divided into polyandry and polygyny).
• Polyandry – The biological father of the child is usually not known. Usually found in societies stricken by extreme poverty. Women can have......


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