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10 Cards in this Set
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Nuclear family |
consists of a cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child |
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traditional nuclear family |
a nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home |
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polygamy |
expands the nuclear family "horizontally" by adding one or more spouses (usually women) to the household |
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extended family |
expands the nuclear family "vertically" by adding another generation - one or more of the spouses parents - to the household |
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Marriage |
traditionally defined, is a socially approved presumably long term sexual and economic union between a man and a woman. it involves reciprocal rights and obligations between spouses and and between parents and children.
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Crude divorce rate |
the number of divorces that occur in a year for every 1000 people in the population |
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Crude marriage rate |
the number of marriages that occur in a year for every 1000 people in the population |
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total fertility rate |
the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she had the same number if she had the sam number of children as do women in each age cohort in a given year |
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blended family |
includes the children of one or both spouses form a previous marriage |
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child support |
money paid by the non-custodial parent to the custodial parents for the purpose of supporting the children of a separated marital, cohabiting or sexual relationship |
