PSYC 3630 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nuclear Family, Fallopian Tube, Family Values
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Chapter 1: marriage, relationships, and family commitments: making choices in a changing. Structural definitions emphasize the form that a thing takes what it actually is. Family functions: society bares the task of raising children responsibly (trained properly in the culture, and are dependable) to families. Family function 3: offering emotional security in the past the point of family was material maintenance, now its more of a source of emotional security. Structural family definitions: the u. s. census bureau defines a family as a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and residing together in a household . Household: any group of people residing together. But by the census bureau definition persons sharing a household must also be related by blood, marriage, or adoption to be considered a family: family structure: or the form a family takes (i. e. nuclear, extended, etc)
