SOCI 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social Conflict, Alimony, In Vitro Fertilisation

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In 2013 about half of adults were married: the number of married adults decreased 5, the number of never married increased 9, the number of divorced increased 8% Family: social interaction that unites individuals in cooperative groups that care for one another, including any children. Nuclear family: one or two parents and their children. Extended family: parents and children and also grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who often live close to one another and operate as a family unit. Marriage: a lawful relationship usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Family today is a broader category: single parents with children, married couples without children, child raised by same sex couple, families of affinity. Cohabitation: sharing of a household by an unmarried couple: 500,000(1970) -> 6. 9 million today, 650,000 same sex couples, 6. 3 million heterosexual couples, us 49% of people aged 25-44 cohabit at some point in their lives.

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