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Social Studies - CSEC SYLLABUS SECTION I
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- 1FamilyA group of people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption.
- 2KinshipBlood relationships
- 3SiblingA group of persons who, through marriage, blood or adoption, share both parents.
- 4BigamyThe criminal act whereby one person remains married to two people at the same time.
- 5IncestThe usually criminal act whereby members of the same family engaged in sexual activity with each other.
- 6MarriageThe legally or formally recognized union of two people who are partners in a personal relationship.
- 7Legal separationA couple live apart but remain married, under a court order.
- 8InheritanceA sum of money or personal belongings passed down from a deceased person to an heir(s).
- 9AnnulmentA marriage between a couple is the retroactive declaration of the marriage to be null and void. Retroactive means the marriage is considered invalid from the beginning and therefore had never taken place.
- 10AlimonyThe legal obligation of a spouse to financial support another before or after a divorce or legal separation.
- 11DivorceThe legal termination of a marriage.
- 12PatrilinealThe tracing of an individual's family relations based on the ancestors, or family line, of the father. It involves the father's side of the family tree.
- 13MatrilinealThe tracing of an individual's family relations based on the ancestors, or family line, of the mother. It involves the mother's side of the family tree.
- 14PatrifocalThe couple and their children move to live with, or near to, the family of the father.
- 15MatrifocalThe couple and their children move to live with, or near to, the family of the mother.
- 16PatriarchalThe husband/father, or oldest male, is the head of the household.
- 17MatriarchalThe wife/mother, or the oldest female, is the head of the household.
- 18MonogamyThe practice or state of being married to one person at a time.
- 19PolyandryThe practice or state of a woman being married to multiple men/husbands.
- 20PolygynyThe practice or state of a man being married to multiple women/wives.
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- CSEC SOCIAL STUDIES - Glossary Section I - Individual, Family and Society
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- Nick Adhar · mar 2020
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