SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Nuclear Family, Child Poverty, Married People
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Nuclear family (192): cohabiting man and women who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. Traditional nuclear family (192): husband works outside the home to make money and the mother works home without pay: wife at home, male primary provider. Fewer than 39 nuclear compared to 59 in 1981 declining. Functionalist thing decline in nuclear and rise in women working disaster. Increase in crime increase in single parent homes: families should be viewed as a single form, ignores new social pressures, changes in families do not always represent deterioration in quality infact can be improvement. Polygamy (196): expands nuclear family horizontally" by adding one or more spouses (women) to the household. Majority of families are monogamous b/c cannot support many wives. Extended family (196): expands nuclear family vertically" by adding another generation on or more spouses parents to the household. Basic block of both families is nuclear unit.
