Search results for: “international encyclopedia of marriage and family”
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Husband
A man who has a wife. …
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Head of a Family
An individual who actually supports and maintains in one household one or more individuals who are closely connected with him by blood relationship , relationship by marriage or by adoption, and whose right to exercise family control and provide for the dependent individuals is […]
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Matricentric Family
A nuclear family in which there is no continuing adult male functioning as a husband and father. This man is missing usually due to death, divorce, abandonment, or no marriage having taken place. In such families, the mother raises her children more or less alone and subsequently has the major […]
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Couple Family
A family based on two persons who are in a registered or de facto marriage and who are usually resident in the same household. A couple family without children may have other relatives, such as ancestors, present. A couple family with children may have adult children and/or other relatives […]