Marriage and Family Review PDF

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These are very brief notes, a light review for an upcoming exam...

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Marriage/ Family – Review lecture – 2/8/2016 Parental Investment  Amount of effort into taking care of the children, from each parent Amongst apes Parental Investment Maternal Investment If you can take care of 6 wives, then you take care of 6 wives, But you don’t want to take care of more wives, because then wives can mate with other males. Mate guarding  downside of polygamy Functionalist theory That the family is a vital institution to the society  Providing specific functions for the survival of the family  As an organ to society, family, specifically What do families do? That is essential to society  They have to have children,  Families are producers of new members of society  Begin socialization of children to the society Families oblige humans to behave via appropriate gender realities  Men must behave like men  Women must behave like women...