Changing Family Patterns Key Words

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Extended family
Any group of kin extended beyond the nuclear family. They may extend vertically or horizontally.
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Empty nest family
Children have left the family home
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Seperation
When a couple are legally married but live apart
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Re-constituted families
A stepfamily in which one or both partners has children from a previous family.
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Cohabitation
A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage. Serial cohabitants have had 1 or more previous cohabitation.
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Living apart together
A couple in a relationship but are not married and not cohabiting
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Bean pole families
Multiple generations where fewer children are born and people live longer, leading to a tall and thin family tree.
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Chosen families
Creation of families by gay people; friendships become a type of kinship network.
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Shot gun wedding
Where a couple feel obliged to get married as the woman is pregnant. This could be due to pressures from the woman's father.
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Dependency culture
Where people assume the state (government) will support them rather than relying on their own efforts and taking responsibility for their families. New Right argue an over-generous welfare system encourages unemployment and a dependency on benefits.
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Underclass
The lowest class in society, below working class. Characterised by a high rate of lone parent families, male unemployment and crime. Links to New Right and dependency culture.
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Pure relationship
Relationship that exists solely to satisfy each partner's needs. Couples stay together because of love, happiness or sexual attraction, rather than tradition, sense of duty of for the sake of the children. Leads to high divorce rates
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'Triple shift'
Women undertake paid work, domestic and emotion work.
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Nuclear Family
Man and women and their children (their own or adopted)
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Household
A group of people who live together and share things such as meals, bills, facilities or chores. Can also be one person living alone.
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Serial monogamy
When a person has a series of marriages, divorces and remarries
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Polygamy
y A marriage that includes more than two partners
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Monogamy
A marriage with two partners only
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Stigma
A negative label given to a person or group. It can be used as a reason to exclude someone e.g. in the past divorcees were excluded from 'respectable' company
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'Empty shell' marriage
Where a couple are still married and live in the same house, but lead separate lives.
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Lone-Parent family
Mother or father bringing up their children by themselves
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Secularisation
The decline of religion. Religious beliefs, practices and institutions loose their importance and influence in society; eg. fewer couples marry in churches
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Children have left the family home

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Empty nest family

Card 3

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When a couple are legally married but live apart

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Card 4

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A stepfamily in which one or both partners has children from a previous family.

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Card 5

Front

A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage. Serial cohabitants have had 1 or more previous cohabitation.

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