Sociology 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Intimate Partner Violence, Queer Theory, Presupposition
4 Feb 2018
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The global context: families of the world: families do not have to be defined by marriage, heterosexual monogamy: Exclusive pair-bonding between two opposite sex people: bill c-38 was passed in canada in 2005 to grant equal marriage rights to same sex couples, polygamy: In 2001, netherlands was first country to legalize same sex marriage. A form of marriage in which one person may have two or more spouses. Most common form is polygyny = the concurrent marriage of one man and two or more women. Polyandry = concurrent marriage of one woman to two or more men. This is rare, but does occur in tibetan and african groups circumstance until 1995: census family: A married couple (with or without never-married sons and/or daughters of one or other. Changing patterns and structures in canadian families and households one son or daughter living in the same dwelling delaying child-rearing to later years.
