FLHD 2400 Exam 1 Questions and
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Nuclear Family: - ✔✔Consists of parents and their children living together.
Conjugal Family System - ✔✔Emphasizes the creation of a family through marriage and
focuses on the couple relationship between husband and wife
Consanguineal Family Systems: - ✔✔A group of people affiliated together by birth.
Blood ties and extended family ties.
Polygyny - ✔✔One man with multiple wives
Polyandry - ✔✔One woman with multiple husbands
Monogamy - ✔✔One man being married to one woman
Matrilineal - ✔✔Descent traced through the mother's line
Patrilineal - ✔✔Descent traced through the father's line
Bilateral - ✔✔Descent traced through both the mother and father
Matriarchal - ✔✔Authority and Dominance held by females
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, Patriarchal - ✔✔Authority and dominance held my males
Equalitarian - ✔✔Equal distribution of authority between genders
Matrilocal - ✔✔Living near the wife's family
Patrilocal - ✔✔Living near the husband's family
Neolocal - ✔✔Independent residence away from both families
Traditional organization of the family: - ✔✔Historically characterized by nuclear
families with patriarchal authority.
Current organization of family: - ✔✔Increasing diversity including single-parent
households and cohabitation.
Trends in marriage rates: - ✔✔Declining
Trends in divorce rates: - ✔✔Stabilizing or slightly declining
Trends in age at first marriage: - ✔✔Increasing
Birthrates: - ✔✔Declining
Trends in cohabitation: - ✔✔Increasing
Trends in Gay and lesbian couples: - ✔✔Increasing
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Nuclear Family: - ✔✔Consists of parents and their children living together.
Conjugal Family System - ✔✔Emphasizes the creation of a family through marriage and
focuses on the couple relationship between husband and wife
Consanguineal Family Systems: - ✔✔A group of people affiliated together by birth.
Blood ties and extended family ties.
Polygyny - ✔✔One man with multiple wives
Polyandry - ✔✔One woman with multiple husbands
Monogamy - ✔✔One man being married to one woman
Matrilineal - ✔✔Descent traced through the mother's line
Patrilineal - ✔✔Descent traced through the father's line
Bilateral - ✔✔Descent traced through both the mother and father
Matriarchal - ✔✔Authority and Dominance held by females
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, Patriarchal - ✔✔Authority and dominance held my males
Equalitarian - ✔✔Equal distribution of authority between genders
Matrilocal - ✔✔Living near the wife's family
Patrilocal - ✔✔Living near the husband's family
Neolocal - ✔✔Independent residence away from both families
Traditional organization of the family: - ✔✔Historically characterized by nuclear
families with patriarchal authority.
Current organization of family: - ✔✔Increasing diversity including single-parent
households and cohabitation.
Trends in marriage rates: - ✔✔Declining
Trends in divorce rates: - ✔✔Stabilizing or slightly declining
Trends in age at first marriage: - ✔✔Increasing
Birthrates: - ✔✔Declining
Trends in cohabitation: - ✔✔Increasing
Trends in Gay and lesbian couples: - ✔✔Increasing
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