INDIVIDULAL, FAMILY & SOCIETY

• KINDSHIP

  BLOOD RELATIONSHIP, MARRAGE OR ADOPTION
• STATUS

  RELATIVE SOCIAL OR PROFESSIONAL STATUS
• MONOGAMY

  BEING MARRIED TO ONE PERSON AT TIME
• POLYANDRY

  A WOMAN WHO AS MORE THAN ONE HUSBAND
• POLYGYNY

  A MAN WHO HAS MORE THAN ONE WIFE
• PARTRIFOCAL 


  A FAMIY WHERE THE FATHER IS INCHARGE
• MATRIFOCAL


  A FAMILY WHERE THE MOTHER IS INCHARGE
• BIGAMY

  MARRIED TO TWO PEROPLE AT THE SAME TIME
• LEGAL SEPERATION

  THE COUPLE IS STILL MARRIED BY LIVE APPART
• ANNULMENT

  A DECLARIATION BY THE COURT THAT THE MARRIAGE IS INVALID
• ALIMONY

  FINANCIAL SUPPORT THAT IS ORDERED BY THE COURT TO GIVE TO THE SPOUCE
• ROLES ORF A PARENT

  PROVIDER

  EDUCATOR

  NUTURING
• CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD PARENT

  PATIENCE

  LIFE SKILLS

  TIME MANAGEMENT
• CULTURE

  THE IDEAS,CUSTOMS AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOURS OF A PARTICULAR PERSON OR SOCIETY
• FLOATING VOTER

  SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T VOTE FOR THE SAME PARTY CONSISTENTLY
• Extended family

  A persons relatives outside of the nuclear family
• Nuclear family

  a persons immediate family which consists of their parents and siblings
• Matrilineal

  Based on kinship with the mother or the female ancestry
• Patrilineal

  Based on kinship with the father or male ancestry
• Incest

  Sexual relationship between people classed as family members
• Divorce

  a decree by the court that a legal marriage no longer exists
• Sibling

  A family member in which you are related to threw your parents biologically, by law or marriage
• inheritance

  Anything an individual receives from another individual after they pass
• Patriarchal

  Society where the father or male is in charge
• Matriarchal

  A society where the mother or female are in charge
• marriage

  a lawfully recognized union between a man and a woman
• what are the functions of a family?

  a unit of support

  a social unit for rearing children, namely, the socialization of individuals

  an economic unit for satisfying basic needs

  a social unit for satisfying emotional and psychological needs
• what are the different family types ?

  nuclear

  extended

  sibling household

  single-parent family
• what are the different types of unions?

  visiting relationship

  consensual/ commo law

  monogamy/legal marriage