Chapter 12: The Family

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Across
  1. 2. people have more than one partner at a time
  2. 5. a woman having several husbands
  3. 8. kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family
  4. 10. the technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning “a mixing of kinds”; it is politically and historically charged – sociologists typically use exogamy or outmarriage as neutral terms
  5. 12. a man having several wives
Down
  1. 1. a person partners with only one other person
  2. 3. living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning
  3. 4. the notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child-rearing
  4. 6. consists of a mother, father and their children
  5. 7. women’s responsibility for housework and child care – everything from cooking to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes
  6. 9. legal or normative sanctions against marrying outside one’s own race, class, or other social group; marriage from within.
  7. 11. marriage to someone outside ones’ social group