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New roles, new gender distinctions, and new child-rearing patterns have all combined to create new forms of family life.
 
 

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The main limitation to the substantive definition of the family is that there are people who seem to be family but do not fit neatly into blood or law. Example: stepsiblings.
 
 

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Any group that fulfills these functions is family to us. Examples: dorm mates, teammates, long-term friends
 
 

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Authority Patterns: Who Rules?

• Historically, power has been distributed according to gender

 
 

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More than 95 percent of all men and women in the United States marry at least once during their lifetimes.
 
 

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Two examples of endogamy are the incest taboo and former laws that prohibited the marriage of blacks and whites in some parts of the United States
 
 

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Until the 1960s, some states in the United States outlawed marriages involving interracial couples.
 
 

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Marriage between African Americans and Whites has increased more than eight times in recent decades. In addition, 25 percent of married Asian American women and 12 percent of married Asian American men are married to someone of non-Asian descent; 27 percent of all married Hispanics have a non-Hispanic spouse.
 
 

 


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