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Family Diversity
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- 1Bean Pole FamilyA family whose living members come from many generations but with few members in each generation so when mapped against a family tree resembles a bean pole.
- 2CohabitationLiving together as a partnership without marriage.
- 3Confluent LoveThis type of love is an 'active contingent love' which jars with the 'forever' notion of the old fashioned romantic love.
- 4DivorceThe legal ending of a relationship that has been sealed by marriage.
- 5Divorce RateThe crude divorce rate is the number of marriages occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000.
- 6Empty Shell MarriageA marriage where all love has run dry and the couple are married by name only.
- 7Gayby BoomThe rise of same sex couples adopting children.
- 8MarriageThe legal recognition of a relationship.
- 9Marriage RateThe crude marriage rate is the number of marriage occurring among the population of a geographical area during a given year, per 1,000.
- 10MonogamyMarriage involving 2 adults, one of each sex.
- 11Neo Conventional FamilyA term put forward by Robert Chester to describe how the nuclear family may have changed in form rather than died.
- 12Plastic SexualityWhen sex is freed from its association with childbirth altogether.
- 13PolygamyMarriage involving 2 or more wives/husbands.
- 14PolygynyMarriage involving 2 or more wives.
- 15PolyandryMarriage involving 2 or more husbands.
- 16PolyamourousNot limited to one relationship at a time but they are all serious emotional commitments, not just casual sex.
- 17Pure RelationshipA relationship where there is a total acceptance on the part of each other 'until further notice'.
- 18Primary RelationshipsClose, long lasting & special ties between people.
- 19Reconstituted FamilyA type of family in which one or both partners bring children from previous relationships.
- 20Romantic LoveThe old fashioned form of love whereby the opposite sex would idealise the other.
- 21Serial MonogamyWhen one moves from one relationship to another, though not necessarily in quick succession.