CHAPTER+16+-+Families

Adam's Part What does family mean to you?

Do you think the Family in the American sense is changing?

//**Family of Affiliation:**// psychological ties with people we love and can count on for emotional, social, and material support According to the U.S. Census Bureau defines a //household// as an individual or group living in a housing unit. A //Family// consist of Two or More people, one whom is the head of the household, living together, who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. In households the proportion consisting of two parents with kids is smaller than ever. Childless couples, single-parent families, and people living alone are increasingly becoming more common in the U.S.
 * //We Are Family://** //Fictive Kinship// reciprocal provision of goods and services, including affection, companionship, and shared values, between nonbiologicals, nonlegally, but socially related individuals
 * //Consecutive//**(serial) **//Monogamy://** Divorce and Remarriage, rather than being married to multiple spouses at the same time(polygamy)
 * //Changing North American Families://** We consider contrasting family backgrounds and experience as ways of establishing our individual and social identities and therefor making all of us different. People always say that people see the kind of family you came from, is part of your identity of making you different from every other person.
 * //Nuclear Family://** parents and kids that live together. This is the typically family that is seen throughout the American social media in TV, Cartoon, basic News
 * //All Sorts of Families://** The family as an institution is a social universal. Humans in all societies belong to kinship groups. Marriage, a publicly and legally sanctioned relationship, is the most important basis for the formation of kinship in North America. Most North Americans are suspicious of extramarital, especially heterosexual, friendships and consider adultry "grounds for divorce".