ase: families
gray divorce
Divorce over the age of 50
consumer rites
Elaborations of older customs as businesses attempted to create new markets for their goods and services.
Cohabitation revolution
Growth in number of couples living together instead of getting married.
May-December relationship
Relationship with a large age gap between partners
divorce
The legal ending of a marriage
heteronormity
The worldview that heterosexuality is the normal and preferred sexual identity
family
a group of people related by marriage, blood, or the law
nuclear family
a married couple and their dependent children
universal norm
a norm that exist in virtually every society
stratified reproduction
access + services based on socio-economic position rich = utilizing assistive reproductive technologies to get pregnant (ex kim k) poor = critiqued for having 'too many children'
incest taboo
cultural rules that forbid sexual relations with certain close relatives
companionate affection
deep emotional commitment
matrillineal/patrilineal society
determine names property, and title through the female or male line
the marriage paradox
emerging adults value and respect marriage, but they are marrying later and less often than previous generations
blended family
family with a step-parent, step-sibling or half-sibling.
polygamy
having more than one spouse at a time
social intergration (durkheim)
how well you are integrated into your social group or community
materinity/paternity leave
leave for women/men after giving birth
Traditional family
mom (house wife), dad (breadwinner), son, daughter, picket fence house etc.
no fault divorce
neither partner has to establish the guilt or wrongdoing of the other
sandwhich generation
people responsible for the care of both their children and elderly relatives
cohabitiation effect
phenomenon in which couples who live together before marriage are more likely to divorce
what is the difference between pre industrial, compassionate and soulmate love?
pi: not based in love, arrangment thru assets (1700-1800) c: "nuclear fam" breadwinner + house wife (1940-1970s) s: modern type of love that just happens
polyandry/polygyny
polyandry = 1 woman many husband (husbands share wife) polygyny = 1 man having many wives (wives share husband)
utlilitarianism love
rational, takes work, requires balance
the pure relationship
relationship thru dating app/social media (more fake)
second shift
the extra amount of house a women does when returning from her wage earning job
adoption
the legal process by which parents take another person's child into their family to be raised as their own
mythical love
unambiguous, unique, proven, permanent
marriage
union between two people, recognized by law
mssing middle
when american politics leave out the middle class
