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Chapter 13: Marriage and Family

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Most children don’t have a choice in the type of family they grow up in. Your family of orientation, the family in which you are raised and socialized due to birth, adoption, or a blended family, was chosen for you. By comparison, your family of procreationthe family you choose to create through marriage, agreed-upon relationships, or the birth or adoption of children, will be your choice with few limitations. Families are based on kinshipa social relationship pattern based on blood, marriage, or adoption, and consist of two primary types of families — extendeda family with other kin such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins living in the same household or nearby (C-19), and nucleara family consisting of one or more parents and children. Extended families are less common in developed countries

Blended familiesfamilies in which one or both spouses have children from previous relationships 

neolocala living pattern in which a couple establishes their own residence independent of their parents, residence instead. Other cultures incorporate a matrilocal, a living pattern in which a couple resides with or near the wife’s parents, residential structure. Another type of residence is a patrilocala living pattern in which a couple resides with or near the husband’s parents. While settin

 

he helicopter parenta well-meaning, overprotective, and overly involved parent that does not promote the characteristic of independence, is a parent whose involvement in a child’s life can have a negative impact

 free-range parentinga style of parenting that deemphasizes scheduling and supervision and emphasizes extreme independence.

  • Authoritarian parents attempt to maintain strict control over their child’s life.
  • Permissive parents give the child extensive freedom to make choices with little input from the parent (Baumrind 1971).
  • Authoritative parents offer a middle-ground combination of control and freedom (Baumrind 1991).
  • Neglectful parents have low involvement in the child’s life (Maccoby and Martin 1983).