LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stepfamily

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Rosario Gomez

Document Summary

Couple and family relationships lecture 3 jan 15. Kingship diagraming male- triangle female- circle gender neutral- square dead- cross through marriage bond- equal sign descent bond- vertical line co-descent bond- horizontal line divorce- equal sign with cross through you(ego)- different colour. Nuclear family- father, mother and children living in one household. Still the majority of households in canada. Today"s postmodern family: binuclear family - two households ex. divorce, blended family - remarriage. 3. the extended family - kin and affiliated kin. *video shown called census-canadian families: then and now - talked about statistics on. *video shown on 2011 stats of canadian families* Some stats on modern canadian families (stats canada census 2011) 67% married couples - which is a decrease. A person who is not your spouse, with whom you are living in a conjugal (having sex with each other) relationship, and at least one of the following situations applies: 42. 2% of couples were same sex - up since 2006.