Social Problems - Chapter 13

Family

a social institution that unites individuals into cooperative groups that care for eachother, including any children

Kinship

a social bond, based off of common ancestry, marriage, or adoption that unites individuals into families

Nuclear family

one or two parents and their children

Extended family

parents and children, and also grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who often live close together and operate like a family unit

Marriage

a lawful relationship usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and child bearing

Families of affinity

people with or without legal or blood ties or children who feel they belong together and define themselves as family

Cohabitation

the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple

Blended Families

families in which children have some combination of biological parents and step parents

In vitro fertilization

uniting egg and sperm in a laboratory

Surrogate motherhood

an arrangement by which one women carries and bears a child for another woman

1967

Loving v. Virginia, unanimous supreme court decision legalizing interracial marriage

1969

California enacted “no fault divorce”

1988

Congress passed the Deadbeat Parent Punishment Act

2015

Obergefell v Hodges passed requiring all states to acknowledge same-sex marriage

1966

Defense of Marriage Act

1978

First baby conceived via reproductive technology