Nuclear Family: - Answers Consists of parents and their children living together.
Conjugal Family System - Answers Emphasizes the creation of a family through marriage and focuses on
the couple relationship between husband and wife
Consanguineal Family Systems: - Answers A group of people affiliated together by birth. Blood ties and
extended family ties.
Polygyny - Answers One man with multiple wives
Polyandry - Answers One woman with multiple husbands
Monogamy - Answers One man being married to one woman
Matrilineal - Answers Descent traced through the mother's line
Patrilineal - Answers Descent traced through the father's line
Bilateral - Answers Descent traced through both the mother and father
Matriarchal - Answers Authority and Dominance held by females
Patriarchal - Answers Authority and dominance held my males
Equalitarian - Answers Equal distribution of authority between genders
Matrilocal - Answers Living near the wife's family
Patrilocal - Answers Living near the husband's family
Neolocal - Answers Independent residence away from both families
Traditional organization of the family: - Answers Historically characterized by nuclear families with
patriarchal authority.
Current organization of family: - Answers Increasing diversity including single-parent households and
cohabitation.
Trends in marriage rates: - Answers Declining
Trends in divorce rates: - Answers Stabilizing or slightly declining
Trends in age at first marriage: - Answers Increasing
Birthrates: - Answers Declining
Trends in cohabitation: - Answers Increasing