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The Marriage and Family
Experience: Intimate
Relationships in a Changing
Society
Chapter 1: The Meaning of
Marriage and the Family
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SUBJECTIVITY VS. OBJECTIVITY
• Subjective: Beliefs about a subject modified or affected by personal views, experiences, or
background.
• Objective: Suspending beliefs, biases, or prejudices we have about a subject until we really
understand what is being said.
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WHAT IS FAMILY?
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Please list all the people you consider to be apart of your family. Examples: Mom, Dad,
Aunt…….
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You may or may not put people that are NOT blood related.
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You may or may not put a person that IS blood related.
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You may or may not put a family pet.
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Should the definition of family change as society changes and becomes more accepting
and diverse??
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DEFINITION OF FAMILY
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United States of Bureau of the Census Definition: Two or more persons living together and
related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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Contemporary Definition: A group of people who simply define themselves as family based
on feelings of love, respect, commitment, and responsibility to and identification with one
another.
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Most people agree that marriages and families underwent major changes during the last
half of the twentieth; however, few people link these changes to larger societal changes
that have taken place. Identify some of the major social changes that have taken place
during the past 70 years and discuss their impact on contemporary marriages and families.
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Marriage, Family, and Television
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Many of our ideas about families are not formed by real-world experiences, but by
television experiences.
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Television has a significant influence in shaping our ideas, values, and beliefs about
marriage, family, and other relationships.
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Television transmits and reinforces social values.
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Television provides models which influence how we interact others and how we expect
others to interact with us.
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Television Activity
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What Is Marriage? What Is Family? (1 of 2)
• A marriage is a socially and legally recognized union between two people in which they are
united sexually, cooperate economically, and may give birth to, adopt, or rear children.
• The union is assumed to be permanent, though it may be dissolved by separation or
divorce.
• As simple as such a definition may make marriage seem, it differs among cultures and has
changed considerably in our society.
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What Is Marriage? What Is Family? (2 of 2)
Figure 1.1 Marital Status, U.S. Population 18 and Older
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Shared Features of Marriage
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Despite cultural and historical variation, the following characteristics seem to be shared
among all marriages:
• The establishment of rights and obligations connected to gender, sexuality, kin
relationships, and legitimacy of children.
• Specified rights and duties of husbands and wives and their responsibilities within the
wider community.
• The orderly transfer of wealth and property from one generation to the next.
• The assignment of responsibility for caring for and socializing children to the spouses or
their relatives.
Television shows depict marriage and marital roles differently and not always accurately.
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Who May Marry?
• As of June 2015, same-sex
marriage is now legal in the United
States.
• This ruling came down from the
U.S. Supreme Court through
Obergefell v. Hodges.
• In this photo, James Obergefell
holds a picture of his late husband.
Obergefell’s fight to have his name
listed on the death certificate as
spouse prompted this court ruling.
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READ: “Public Policies, Private Lives”
PG: 9
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Forms of Marriage
• Monogamy
• The practice of having only one spouse at a time
• The only legal form of marriage in the United States
• The most widely practiced form of marriage worldwide
• Polygamy
• The preferred marital arrangement worldwide
• Polygyny is the practice of having two or more wives.
Accepted and found more commonly in Middle Eastern, African, Southeast Asian, and
Melanesian populations
• Polyandry is the practice of having two or more husbands.
▶ Quite rare
▶ Preferred? Practiced?
▶ VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7HKmu3eMEk 5:19 Polyandry
▶ VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Pm5092a0c 7:32 Progressive Polygamy
▶
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The Rights and Benefits of Marriage
• The rights and benefits of marriage include but are not limited to:
• Right to enter into a premarital agreement
• Income tax deductions, credits, rates, exemptions, and estimates
• Legal status with a partner’s children
• Partner medical decisions
• Right to inherit property
• Right to a divorce
• Award of child custody in divorce proceedings
• Payment of worker’s compensation benefits after death of spouse
• Right to support from spouse
• There are also potential personal and emotional benefits related to marriage.
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Defining Family (1 of 3)
• Census Definitions
• Family
• “A group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth,
marriage, or adoption and residing together”
• Household
• “All the people who occupy a housing unit”
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Defining Family (2 of 3)
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Single Parent Housholds
8:56
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Defining Family (3 of 3)
• Most of those designated as family members are individuals related by descent, marriage,
remarriage, or adoption but some are affiliated kin or fictive kin:
• Best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, godchild, lover, minister, neighbor, pet, priest, rabbi,
teacher
• Ethnic differences exist as to whom people consider to be family.
• The definition of “family” needs to be expanded beyond the official census definition in order
to reflect the diversity of families.
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What Families Do: Functions of Marriages and
Families
The family has four primary functions:
1. Families provide a source of intimate relationships, thus decreasing our feelings of isolation
and loneliness.
2. Families act as units of economic cooperation and consumption.
3. Families may produce and socialize children.
4. Families assign social statuses and roles to individuals.
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READ: The Care Families Give
Pg. 15
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What Is Marriage? What Is Family? Types of
Families
• Family of orientation or origin
• The family into which we grow up or are born or adopted into
• May begin as a nuclear family or a single-parent family and then later develop into a
binuclear family
• Family of procreation (families we make)
• The family formed through marriage and childbearing
• Due to increase in diversity of family forms, the following could refer to the families we
make:
• The families we form through living with or cohabitating with another person, whether
married or unmarried
• The families we form through bearing and raising children
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Why Live in Families?
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There are several advantages to living in a family:
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Continuity as a result of emotional attachments, rights, and obligations
Close proximity
Intimate awareness of others
Economic benefits
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Extended Families and Kinship (1 of 2)
• Extended Family
• Consists of not only the cohabiting couple and their children but also grandparents,
aunts, uncles, cousins, and in-laws. In the United States, we see this most exhibited as
the modified extended family.
• In most non-European countries, this is the most common family unit.
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Extended Families and Kinship (2 of 2)
• Kinship System
• The social organization of the family
• Family relationships are created in two ways:
• Conjugal relationships: relationships created through marriage
• Consanguineous relationships: relationships created through biological (blood)
ties—birth and descent
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Multiple Viewpoints of Families: Religious
Affiliation
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Religious affiliation and participation are prominent influences on attitudes toward the
family:
• Individuals who report being affiliated with any religious group are more likely to have
conservative attitudes.
• Conservative religious beliefs are often accompanied by more traditional gender and
family attitudes.
• Americans who more frequently attend religious services or who believe in the strict
interpretation of the Bible tend to support stricter divorce laws.
• There are differences both within religious groups and between them regarding
attitudes toward the family.
• Those who express holding no religious beliefs tend to be more liberal in their attitudes
on family issues.
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Multiple Viewpoints of Families: Various
Perspectives
There are two extreme and opposing ideological positions on the well-being of families:
• Conservatives: tend to be more pessimistic about change in family life and the state of
today’s families
• Believe cultural values have shifted from individual self-sacrifice to personal selffulfillment
• See change as indicative of a decline in the strength of the family, especially regarding
child rearing
• Liberals: tend to be more optimistic about the status and future of family life
• Believe changing family patterns are the result of and adaptations to the wider social and
economic changes families are facing, as opposed to a shift in cultural values
• See changes in family patterns as only changes and not indicative of a decline in the
family
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Multiple Viewpoints of Families
• A Pew Research Center survey found that, among Americans, regarding recent trends in
family life:
• 31% of responders are accepters.
• 32% of responders are rejecters.
• 37% of responders are skeptics.
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The Major Themes of This Text
• Families are dynamic.
• The family is a dynamic social institution that has undergone considerable change
historically.
• Families are diverse.
• Not all families experience things the same way.
• Diversity includes social class, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and chosen
lifestyle.
• Families have outside influences.
• Outside forces shape family experiences.
• Families and wider society are interdependent.
• While societal support is essential for family well-being, the society itself is likewise
dependent on strong and stable families.
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