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Title: Family and Household


1
Chapter 20
  • Family and Household

2
Chapter Outline
  • What is the family?
  • What is the difference between family and
    household?
  • What are some of the challenges of family and
    household organization?

3
Family
  • In 1950, 60 of all U.S. households conformed to
    the nuclear family model.
  • Today, only 26 of U.S. households conform to
    the independent nuclear family ideal.
  • In the U.S. 28 of women have experienced
    domestic violence, and 10 are killed by their
    batterers every day.

4
Functions of the Family
  • Nurturance of children.
  • Economic cooperation.
  • Provide child with models from whom they can
    learn gender appropriate roles.

5
Definition of the Family
  • A group composed of a woman and her dependent
    children, with at least one adult man joined
    through marriage or blood relationship.
  • In most societies, families constitute households
    or households are built around families.

6
Households
  • Basic residential units that implement
  • Economic production
  • Consumption
  • Inheritance
  • Child rearing
  • Shelter

7
Five Basic Residence Patterns
  • Patrilocal
  • Matrilocal
  • Ambilocal
  • Neolocal
  • Avunculocal

8
Family Organization and Problems
  • Polygamous families - potential conflict among
    spouses of the individual to whom they are
    married.
  • Polyandrous families - older husbands are apt to
    dominate the younger ones.

9
Family Organization and Problems
  • Extended families - decisions are made by an
    older individual whose views may not coincide
    with those of the younger family members.
  • Nuclear families - husbands and wives must work
    out their own solutions to the problems of living
    together and having children.

10
Female-Headed Households
  • 1970s
  • 45 households were nuclear families.
  • 4.7 households were single parent families.
  • 1998
  • 26 households were nuclear families.
  • 18.2 households were single parent families.
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