Marriage And The Family Test 1 Textbook Ch. 1

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Marriage

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It is the emotional and legal commitment of two people to share emotional and physical intimacy, various tasks, and economic resources.

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Family

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1. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children
2. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
3. All the members of a household under one roof
4. A group of persons sharing common ancestry
5. Books definition: Two or more people who are committed to each other and who share intimacy, resources, decision-making, responsibilities, and values.

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Stress

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It is the body and mind's reaction to life. Stress is directly related to change, and the greater the change, the higher the level of stress.

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Social Environment

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It comprises all the factors in society, both positive and negative, that impact on individuals and their relationships, such as the mass media, the Internet, changing gender roles, and growing urban crowding.

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What is marriage?

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1. A demographic event.
2. The joining of two family and social networks.
3. A legal contract between the couple and the state.
4. An economic union.
5. The most common living arrangement for adults.
6. The context of most human sexual activity.
7. A reproductive unit
8. A unit that socializes children
9. An opportunity to develop an intimate, sharing, relationship.

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What is family?

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1. A group of two people or more one of who is the householder related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people are considered members of of one family.
2. It is a group of people who love and care for each other
3. Two or more persons who share resources, share responsibility for decisions, share values and goals, and have commitment to one another over time.
4. Families provide emotional, physical, and economic mutual aid to their members. Ideally such families are characterized by intimacy, intensity, continuity, adn commitment among their members.
5. The definition of a family "should not rest on fictitious legal distinctions or genetic history" but instead should be based on the functional and psychological qualities of the relationship: the "exclusivity and longevity" of the relationship; the "level of emotional and financial commitment"; the "reliance placed upon one another for daily family services"; and how the couple (members) "conducted their everyday lives

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Trends in Marriage and Family

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1. Fewer marriages
2. later age of marriage
3. fewer children
4. continued flattening of divorce rates
5. more single-parent families and stepfamilies
6. a greater need for day care
7. more child abuse
8. more spouse abuse
9. less connection to kin networks
10. Marriage is still popular, but not as popular as it once was. More couples are choose to cohabit.

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Trends in Divorce and Remarriage

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1. Marriage is still popular, but about half of all recent marriages in the Unites States end in divorce or separation. The majority of those getting divorced will end up remarrying.
2. Many who get remarried will end up divorcing again.

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Trends in Family Structure

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1. Family structure is becoming more complex through divorce and remarriage, which creates new kinship relationships. Contemporary families are more varied today than ever before. There are stepfamilies, same-sex parents and couples, child-free couples, grandparents raising children, surrogate parents, foster care families, families with disabled parents and children, and a variety of informal family arrangements.
2. 69% of all children live in a nuclear family with two parents present.
3. Single-parent families have dramatically increased in number.
4. The number of families headed by a single parent is increasing.
5. Families are typically having fewer children today.
6. The number of state at home moms has decreased since the 50s, but the number of mothers with infants in the labor force has decreased in recent years.
Continuity in Marriage and the Family.
1. Most people in the United States want to marry and see it as a life long commitment.
2. They want an egalitarian relations

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Focus on Marital and Family Strengths

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Paying attention to the good things your partner or children do and giving praise for the things you appreciate. All families have strengths and it is important to look at them more than weaknesses.

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Advantages of Marriage

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1. Married people live longer than unmarried or divorced people.
2. Married people are happier than single, widowed, or cohabiting people.
3. Married couples have sex more frequently and find their sexual relationship more satisfying physically and emotionally than singles.
4. Married sex is better because of four factors: proximity, long-term contract, exclusivity, and emotional bonding.
5. Being married is good for men in their financial career and earnings.
6. Married couples accumulate more financial wealth.
7. Married people, especially women, are less likely to experience domestic abuse that cohabiting and separated women.
8. Children generally fare better in families where their parents are married.