[FRHD 1020] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (58 pages long)

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Related to family law concerns, not a definition of the family per se, each province and territory also has legislation about families. Legal definitions tend to change over time, with new court rulings and legislation, and also depend on your field. Applied context: enforceable legislated laws: normative. Shared by majority of people in a country or region. Practice or action regarded as socially legitimate and approved. Sometimes legal definitions are out of synch with social norms (definitions of family have broadened) Applied context: social norms in a society: research. Derived from: social theory, a social problem, a hunch. Parents and their children living in the same home: extended family. All relatives that are in close proximity. All live together and share household duties: complex family. 3 or more adults + their children: step family. Adults have divorced and remarried: adopted family. Shares legal bonds but no biological ones. A married couple (with or without children of either or both spouses)

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