FAMILY: Kinship, Marriage,

and the Household

2nd Grading, 3rd Session
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
 Defining Problems in Defining
the Family the Family

 Basic and most essential unit • Declining marriage rate

of the society
 “A group of people who have
common residence, and
share economic and
reproductive ties.” (Mike
Morris, 2012)
 Kinship – social bond
developed inside the family
• Increasing cohabitation rate
(Live-in partners)
• Increasing annulment rate
• Increasing cases of
domestic violence
 MARRIAGE
Patterns

• MONOGAMY – permits only one marital union for each

individual
• ENDOGAMY – marrying only within an ethnic group, clan,
or tribe
• EXOGAMY – marrying someone outside one’s ethnic
group, clan, or tribe
 MARRIAGE
Patterns

POLYGAMY – marriage that includes more than two

partners
• POLYGYNY – when a man is married to more than
one woman at a time
• POLYANDRY – when a woman is married to more
than one man at a time
RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS
MATRILOCALITY – The married couple
will Live at/or near the residence of the
wife’s family
PATRILOCALITY – the married couple will
live at/or near the residence of husband’s
family
NEOLOCALITY – the married couple will
live in a house of their own choosing
apart from their families.
 TWO TYPES
of Descent Groups

Uniline
al
• Descent either through the father
• Children can opt to claim lineage
on either the father or mother’s
or mother family group
• Patrilineal and Matrilineal
 Also known as compadrazgo; Serves as the second father
or mother of a child and share parental roles
 Ex. Ninong and ninang
HOUSEHOLD
VS,family

May consist of only one Must have at least two

person members

Members need not be Members must be related

related to each other
 STAGES OF
FAMILY LIFE
courtship Romantic love
• Mutual consent based
• People get to know on strong feelings of
each other in for a attraction
serious, committed • Traditional and Modern
relationship.
ROMANTIC LOVE
• The main tenet for this type of love would be: “all is fair
in love” – meaning, love transcends economic
inequalities and physical appearances
• Unlike traditional societies where people marry for
family status, alliance, and economic reasons, modern
romantic love requires mutual consent based on
strong feelings of attraction and sexual desire
 Definition
• Fixes the definition of marriage in the Philippines
“Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a
man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the
establishment of conjugal and family life. It is the foundation
of the family and an inviolable social institution.”
It does not take into It does not take
It does not take
account same-sex into account
into account
marriages and illegitimate
cohabitants
polygamous unions children
Definition
 Definition
• Couples who share common residence, with a child, but without the benefit of
marriage
• Not recognized as official families
• They are not accorded health and social security benefits of the partner
 Domestic Violence
 Refers to the abuse by one person of another in an intimate relationship

 Physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse

 R.A. 9262 – Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of
2004
 Divorce
ends a marriage between a man and a woman; there is a record of the
marriage
Annulment
voids the marriage as if the marriage never occurred; the record has no legal
force
 Legal separation
gives couple the right to live separately from each other but they are not
allowed by the law to remarry
 Transnational families – “live some or most of the time
separated from each other…”

 Number of parents/people migrating to work abroad

(dispersion from their original homeland)
 Computer-mediated communications are keeping the
relationships intact
 Studies show same-sex couple parents create no significant
disadvantage for children