SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Monogamy, Domestic Partnership
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Legal definition: group of two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Sociological definition: kinship system of all relatives living together, or recognized as a social unit, including adopted people. Serial monogamy succession of marriages in which a person has made than 1 spouse over a lifetime, but is legally married to only 1 person at a time. Polygyny 1 man + 2 or more women. Polyandry 1 woman + 2 or more men. Bigamy | being legally married to more than one person. Illegal in u. s. ; congress outlawed polygamy in 1892. In developed western countries, despite some gender inequality there are more eqalitarian marriages: men and women are equal partners, 23% of men in 2013 were stay-at-home dads with wives working. In less developed countries, women may have average of 4-5 children: early marriage, around age 18. In the united states, 4 in 10 births in 2012 were to unmarried women.
