Conjugal family

Throughout the history of humanity, there are actually only a few things that unite everybody. So much of our lives are determined by our cultural values that there are hundreds of ways for people to live. But there is one thing that every person in history has in common. We were all born. Being born is very useful. And that means that we all had parents, relatives, and other people who cared for us. We may not all have known our parents, but everybody had someone take care of them. Everyone across history had some form of family or another. Who we are, how we were raised, where we are going; it's all in the family. A family, at its most basic, is a group of people affiliated by genes or living situation. The simplest form of family is called the conjugal family. A conjugal family includes one husband, one wife, and their biological children. In American history, this was sometimes called a nuclear family. Conjugal families are generally assumed to have parents who are legally married. This was a major trend for a while, but in recent years has diminished, as other forms of family rise in prominence. An extended family is another very common form of family, and refers to genetic family members beyond parents and children. Extended families often include grandparents, uncles or aunts, and cousins. Extended families often share resources and commonly live together. Social relationship as defined by family and genetics are called kinship networks. In many cultures, kinship is...

KINSHIP SYSTEMS AND FAMILY TYPES Kinship systems are mechanisms that link conjugal families (and individuals not living in families) in ways that affect the integration of the general social structure and enhance the ability of the society to reproduce itself in an orderly fashion. Kinship performs these social functions in two ways. First, through relationships defined by blood ties and marriage, kinship systems make possible ready-made contemporaneous networks of social ties sustained during the lifetimes of related persons and, second, they enable the temporal continuity of identifiable family connections over generations, despite the limited lifespan of a family's members. Variations in norms governing the structure of contemporaneous networks and the modes of temporal continuity compose the basis for the typologies of kinship systems described in this article. In conceptualizing connections between kinship systems and family types, social scientists have applied either of two approaches. Some have developed typologies from historical analyses (and evolutionary schemes) that depict the transition of Western societies from ancient or medieval origins to modern civilizations. Other social scientists construct typologies that cut across diverse historical periods. Each historical era then constitutes a unique medium in which the structural typologies are expressed. MODERNITY, FAMILY PATTERNS, AND KINSHIP SYSTEMS There are at least three ways to develop historical typologi...

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ADVERTISEMENTS: Family: Meaning, Characteristics, Function and Types! Meaning: The family is an intimate domestic group made up of people related to one another by bonds of blood, sexual mating or legal ties. It is the smallest and most basic social unit, which is also the most important primary group found in any society. It is the simplest and most elementary group found in a society. It is a social group consisting of a father, mother and one or more children. It is the most immediate group a child is exposed to. In fact, it is the most enduring group, which has tremendous influence on the life of an individual, from birth until death. It also accounts for the most enduring social relation­ship found in society. Family has been defined by different social scientists. ADVERTISEMENTS: Some of these definitions are given below: ‘Family is a group defined by sexual relationship, sufficiently precise and enduring to provide for the procreation and upbringing of children.’ – Maclver ‘The family, almost without question, is the most important of any groups that human experience offers … the family … is with us always, or more precisely, we are with it.’ ADVERTISEMENTS: – Eliot and Merrill ‘Family is a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption constitut­ing a single household interacting and inter-communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, father and mother, son and daughter, brother and sister, creating a common cul...

In …predominant nuclear-family unit are the conjugal family and the consanguineal family. As its name implies, the conjugal family is knit together primarily by the marriage tie and consists of mother, father, their children, and some close relatives. The consanguineal family, on the other hand, typically groups itself around a unilineal… role in • Asia • In …revolution in family values: the conjugal family (centring on the emotional bond between wife and husband) is rapidly replacing the patriarchal joint family (focused on support of aged parents and grandparents). This transformation is occurring even in remote, rural regions of northwest China where married couples now expect to reside… • medieval French society • In The conjugal family gained in importance: Roman and especially canon law favoured its authority over the wider solidarities of clan or kin (extended family); rulers made the hearth a basis of fiscal responsibility. The growing population remained overwhelmingly agrarian, but changes in farming practices made their…

What is a family? Not so long ago it would have been uncontroversial to reply, “A husband and wife and their children.” This conjugal family could be diminished by the death of a member, splintered by divorce, expanded by the co-residence of other relations (a grandmother, for example), an adopted child, or other persons; but the norm of mum, dad and their kids remained almost universally acknowledged. In the mid-20th century the American anthropologist G. P. Murdoch Social Structure, 1949) Although that definition could be made to fit today’s same-sex couple with children, the phrase “socially approved sexual relationship” in 1949 meant “marriage,” between a man and a woman. Seventy years later, after the sexual revolution, the divorce revolution and the reproductive technology revolution, virtually every part of Murdoch’s definition can be dispensed with. While officials and courts still use the word “family,” they refer to such a variety of relationships and living situations that the term becomes practically meaningless. The President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lady (Brenda) Hale, who has played a significant part in this process ( Prospect magazine has A month ago she addressed the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice on the subject, Way back in the mists of time when I first studied Family Law, we thought we knew what a family was. It was a group of people linked together by consanguinity [blood relationship, as between a parent a...