3.2 key Terms

5. of Choice: Social networks or chosen relationships that provide family-like support, rather than traditional kinship ties.
8. Extended Family: A contemporary extended family where members maintain contact through visits, help, or communication but do not necessarily live near each other.
12. Family: A family structure centered around the mother, often with little or no involvement from a male partner.
14. Love: A type of love based on mutual exchange and reciprocity, contingent on each partner receiving something in return.
15. Family: Sometimes called a step-family, formed after the break-up of one family and its reassembly as a new family through remarriage or cohabitation.
16. Family: A vertically extended family structure with strong links between generations but weak links between siblings and cousins due to declining birth rates.

1. When a couple lives together without being legally married.
2. Monogamy: A pattern of engaging in successive monogamous relationships, one after the other.
3. The idea that something, such as a family structure, is not performing its intended function correctly and may cause harm to individuals or society.
4. Breakdown: The ending of a marriage relationship for reasons other than the death of a partner.
6. Roles: The distinct roles played by men and women in the family. Joint conjugal roles involve shared duties, while segregated conjugal roles reflect traditional norms.
7. Shell Marriage: A marriage where the couple live together in name only, lacking an emotional or physical relationship.
9. Violence: Any form of physical, emotional, or verbal abuse occurring within the home or family unit.
10. Apart Together (LAT): Couples who are married or in a long-term relationship but do not live together, maintaining separate households.
11. Family: A family structure in which roles and responsibilities are shared equally between partners within the home.
13. Family: A family structure centered around the father, with the mother playing a secondary role.