FRHD 1020 Chapter 1: Textbook - Chapter 1 (What is a family)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Sarah Murray

Document Summary

Textbook: the family dynamic a canadian perspective fifth edition. Learning objectives: to introduce the concept of family and to review a variety of definitions, to consider theoretical views of the family, along with their strengths and weaknesses, to review ways researchers study families. Household: people who occupy the same dwelling (can consist of one or more families, a single person, a group of related or unrelated people) Polygamy: one person married to two or more persons of the opposite sex (common in muslim countries, encouraged in early mormons in the usa) Communal living: sharing of all household responsibilities, living and eating together (hutterites) Census family: married couple, common-law couple, lone parent with at least one child in the same dwelling, children included may be adopted, by birth or marriage; includes families which are made up of those who raise their grandchildren.