families and their social networks

nuclear family

immediate family

exchanges between couples and their networks

• financial

• materials (including services)

• psychological (emotional and cognitive)

status

within a social network that reflects an individual's position or rank in relation to others

affinity

relationships or connections formed through marriage or partnership, often expanding social networks.

parent-child relationships are based on

norms

sibling supports are based on

liking

what helps build intimate relationships with kin

age, gender, contact opportunity and lifestyle

doing kinship

when kinship becomes voluntary and selective, based on liking and negotiation

fictive kin

one picks up an unrelated person and makes him/her kin

families of choice/social families

based on affection and mutual interest when friendships become normative

why is connectivity low within couples

energy and time limit the connection

boundedness of couples

ego centered, not full networks

asymmetrical network sidedness

patricentric vs. matricentric

non-overlapped network sidedness

bicentric vs. unicentric

how is the duality of networks a curvilinear relation

time/energy, support/control, conflict and interdependence all fluctuate

divorce

split those based on the marriage, reinforce those with original families

the sizes of networks _____ greatly after divorce and remarriage chains

increase

why is connectedness low after divorce

each person tends to have a larger proportion of family members compared to in-laws who are less supportive but more problematic

the ties between father and children weaken when

mothers have a tight bond with children