conjugal family

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conjugal family - a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner

family, household, menage, home, house - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

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A nuclear or conjugal family consists of two married parents as opposed to a single parent.

Agents of Change

This newly created conjugal family offers an alternative to the original family for Elizabeth.

Exit Strategies: Jane Austen, Marriage, and Familial Escape

Working from Roman funerary texts, Saller and Shaw could show the clear prevalence of the nuclear family, but they emphasised elements of conjugal family units in composite texts, which Huebner would rather count as evidence of extended or multiple family households.

Beryl Rawson (ed.), A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

This resulted in a horizontal social structure that privileged the value of the conjugal family and increased the importance of the London guild system as members worked to circulate their wealth among themselves by fostering internal remarriages.

The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London

Thematically, Mapping the Margins offers twelve essays that consider the normative, conjugal family (of homemakers and wives and breadwinners and husbands, along with their dependant children), as a marginalizing force, a powerful model that often served to define those living outside of it.

Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, eds., Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1975

This study is the follow up of an earlier study of laws governing relations in the conjugal family and their impact on the situation of women in West Africa.

Kuenye, Akua, 2003, Women and Law in West Africa: Gender Relations in the Family

Based on experiences of Western Europe and North America, the Goode model predicts that there will be a worldwide convergence from the "traditional" family system toward a westernized conjugal family system as non-Western and agrarian societies become increasingly industrialized, urbanized and commodified.

CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN URBAN AMERICA AND URBAN CHINA

His modernization approach maintains that in the "world revolution" of industrialization and urbanization, traditional family forms are converging to the conjugal family system.

Family and Economic Growth: A World-System Approach and a Cross-National Analysis

Table 1: Pearson Correlation Coefficients for Pooled Sample Gender Race Security Marital Gender 1.000 Race -.044 1.000 Security .156 .132(*) 1.000 Marital .257(**) .195(**) -.058 1.000 Conjugal .458(**) .107 .045 .599(**) Family .308(**) .105 .030 .573(**) SexBeh -.325(**) -.091 -.049 -.140 Violence .128(*) -.055 -.020 -.132 Conjugal Family SexBeh Violence Gender Race Security Marital Conjugal 1.000 Family .634(**) 1.000 SexBeh -.147(*) -.090 1.000 Violence .122 .004 .351(**) 1.000