Explain the complexities associated with Americans’ definitions of family.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Depending on who is asked, family is defined differently.
2. As defined by the U.S. Census, families share a blood tie or are connected through marriage or adoption and reside in the same household, but this definition excludes many family types (e.g., cohabiting couples)
3. Traditional or nuclear families differ from how scholars define kinship systems, fictive kin, or “the familial package” – which also accounts for social and emotional connections in families that go beyond legal ties to others.
4. Marriage is at the center of how many, but not all, Americans define “family.”
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