HDFS 2200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institutional Review Board, Date Rape, The Marriage Market
5 Oct 2018
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Family functions: raising children responsibly, providing economic order and other practical support, offering emotional security. Traditionally, both law and social science specified that the family consisted of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Some definitions of the family specified a common household, economic interdependency, and sexual/reproductive relations. The u. s. census bureau defines a family as two or more persons sharing a household and who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Until the last 50 years, the nuclear family was considered the modern family. As families have become less traditional, the legal definition of a family has become much more flexible. A discussion on family decline or family change explores the debate as to whether current changes in the family are positive or negative according to the views of social scientists and researchers. A sociological imagination: personal troubles and some social conditions that impact.
