Families
Basic unit to describe interconnected people
Family
Marriage to a succession of spouces
Serial monogamy
Descent from a common ancestor
Lineage
Marrying outside of your social group
Exogamy
One partner at a time
Monogamy
The family in which an individual is raised
Family of orientation
Describing a group assuming common ancestry
Clan
Kin reckoned through both sides of the family
Bilateral descent
Marrying inside of your social group
Endogamy
One man with multiple wives
Polygyny
A husband living with the wife's family
Matrilocality
Traditional family with two parents and their children
Nuclear family
Kin reckoned through the mother’s side of the family
Matrilineal descent
Two families who set their children up to marry
Arranged marriage
One woman with multiple husbands
Polyandry
A wife living with the husband's family
A household consisting of one parents and their children
Single parent family
Kin reckoned through father’s side of the family
Patrilineal descent
A woman marrying her deceased husband's brother
Levirate marriage
Consensually having more than one partner
Polyamory
A family creating their own household
Neolocality
A family of three generations in one household
Extended family
A system that calls parents, aunts, and uncles: father and mother
Hawaiian System
A man marrying his deceased wife’s sister
Sororate marriage
Being married to more than one spouce
Polygamy