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Flashcards by Nick Adhar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nick Adhar
about 4 years ago
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| Family | A group of people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption. |
| Kinship | Blood relationships |
| Sibling | A group of persons who, through marriage, blood or adoption, share both parents. |
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Bigamy
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The criminal act whereby one person remains married to two people at the same time. |
| Incest | The usually criminal act whereby members of the same family engaged in sexual activity with each other. |
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Marriage
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The legally or formally recognized union of two people who are partners in a personal relationship. |
| Legal separation | A couple live apart but remain married, under a court order. |
| Inheritance | A sum of money or personal belongings passed down from a deceased person to an heir(s). |
| Annulment | A 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. |
| Alimony | The legal obligation of a spouse to financial support another before or after a divorce or legal separation. |
| Divorce | The legal termination of a marriage. |
| Patrilineal | The 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. |
| Matrilineal | The 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. |
| Patrifocal | The couple and their children move to live with, or near to, the family of the father. |
| Matrifocal | The couple and their children move to live with, or near to, the family of the mother. |
| Patriarchal | The husband/father, or oldest male, is the head of the household. |
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Matriarchal
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The wife/mother, or the oldest female, is the head of the household. |
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Monogamy
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The practice or state of being married to one person at a time. |
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Polyandry
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The practice or state of a woman being married to multiple men/husbands. |
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Polygyny
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The practice or state of a man being married to multiple women/wives. |
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