| A | B |
|---|
| Infant mortality rates | Larger families have higher child mortality rates. |
| Firstborn children are more likely | to die young (in larger families) |
| Medicalization | The process by which problems or issues not traditionally seen as medical come to be framed as such. One example is the notion alcoholism being seen as a disease |
| Medication of mental illness | This refers to the significant increase in the use of pharmaceuticals to treat mental illness. One example of a negative aspect of medicalization of mental illness is the overprescribing or misprescribing of pharmaceuticals |
| Pharmaceuticals | medicines |
| According to the CDC (Center for disease control) | rates of ADHD diagnosis increased an average of 3% per year from 1997 to 2006 |
| Endogamy | Marriage to someone with one's social group |
| Exogamy | Marriage to someone from a different social group |
| Monogamy | The practice of marrying or being in a relationship with one person at a time |
| Polygamy | A system of marriage that allows people to have more than one spouse |
| Polygny | A system of marriage that allows women to have multiple husbands |
| Miscegenation | Interracial marriage |
| Family | A social group whose members are bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties, or a combination of all three. |
| Kinship network | A string of relationships between people related by blood |
| Nuclear family | A heterosexual couple with one or more children living in a single household |
| Kin | Relatives or relations usually those related by common descent |
| Cult of Domesticity | The notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility(cooking and cleaning house) and child rearing. |
| The second shift | Coined by Arlie Hoschild, a term for women's responsibilities after returning home from the office: cooking dinner, doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories and sewing Halloween costumes |
| The leisure gap | A term that refers to the notion that women work roughly 15 hours longer each week than men. This allows men to have more time for leisure activities like watching TV and sleeping. |
