Domestic Partners

Examples of Domestic Partners in the following topics:

• Marital Residence

  • The parenting role of cohabiting partners could also have a negative effect on the child.
  • The partner that is not the parent, usually the father, does not have "explicit legal, financial, supervisory or custodial rights or responsibilities regarding the children of his partner" according to Waite.
  • This can cause an unstable living arrangement for a child in which he or she acts out because the partner is "not their real parent. "
  • Some places, including the state of California, have laws that recognize cohabiting couples as domestic partners.

• Factors Associated with Divorce

  • Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
  • While not conclusive, the predominate factors that lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions such as alcoholism and gambling.
  • Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
  • Delaying marriage until one is older or more experienced may provide more opportunity to choose a more compatible partner

• New Developments in Families

  • This recognition led to the creation of a Domestic Partners Registry, which is available to same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples in which at least one of the partners is age 62 or older, granting them limited legal recognition and some rights similar to those of married couples.
  • The most important of these is the Census Bureau, which currently describes an "unmarried partner" as "A person age 15 years and over, who is not related to the householder, who shares living quarters, and who has a close personal relationship with the householder."
  • While homosexuality has existed for thousands of years among both humans and other animals, formal marriages between gay / lesbian partners is a relatively recent phenomenon - the earliest recorded examples were referred to as Boston Marriages in 19th century America.

• Spousal Abuse

  • Spousal abuse can be defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship.
  • Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
  • Some researchers have found a relationship between the availability of domestic violence services, improved laws and enforcement regarding domestic violence, increased access to divorce, and higher earnings for women with declines in intimate partner homicide by women.
  • Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.
  • A 1999 analysis of 19 different studies of partner abuse concluded that "lesbians and gay men are just as likely to abuse their partners as heterosexual men," although the study also noted the uncertain nature of much of the contemporary research.

• Family Violence

  • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
  • Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation.
  • Economic abuse is a form of abuse when one intimate partner has control over the other partner's access to economic resources.
  • These are known as the psychological effects of domestic violence.
  • These are the financial effects of domestic violence.

• Introduction

  • The "residents" (volunteers at Hull were given this title) held classes in literature, history, art, domestic activities (such as sewing), and many other subjects.
  • These studies enabled the Hull House residents to confront the establishment, eventually partnering with them in the design and implementation of programs intended to enhance and improve the opportunities for success by the largely immigrant population.

• What is a family?

  • Generally, we think of a family as a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent from: (1) a common ancestor, (2) marriage, (3) adoption, or (4) some other committed (romantic or otherwise) relationship.
  • The most common form of romantic relationship tied to family structure in the Western World is monogamy, which is the practice of having only one spouse or committed romantic partner at a time.
  • Intermarriage between groups, tribes, or clans was often political or strategic and resulted in reciprocal obligations between the two groups represented by the marital partners.

• Mate Selection

  • There is wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules governing the selection of a partner for marriage.
  • There is wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules that govern the selection of marriage partners.
  • In some communities, partner selection is an individual decision, while in others, it is a collective decision made by the partners' kin groups.
  • In many societies, the choice of partner is limited to suitable persons from specific social groups.
  • In other societies, on the other hand, partners can be selected from a different social group than one's own.

• The Incest Taboo, Marriage, and the Family

  • All human cultures have norms regarding who is considered suitable and unsuitable as sexual or marriage partners.
  • Usually certain close relatives are excluded from being possible partners.
  • Little agreement exists among cultures about which types of blood relations are permissible partners and which are not.
  • In many cultures, certain types of cousin relations are preferred as sexual and marital partners, whereas others are taboo.
  • One potential explanation for the incest taboo sees it as a cultural implementation of a biologically evolved preference for sexual partners without shared genes, as inbreeding may have detrimental outcomes .

• Structural holes

  • Actor A will not be in a strong bargaining position in this network, because both of A's potential exchange partners (B and C) have alternatives to treating with A; they could isolate A, and exchange with one another.
  • Actor A has two alternative exchange partners; actors B and C have only one choice, if they choose to (or must) enter into an exchange.
  • If A has few alternatives to exchanging with B, and if those alternative exchange partners are also tied to B, then B is likely to constrain A's behavior.
  • If ego's potential trading partners all have one another as potential trading partners, ego is highly constrained.
  • If ego's partners do not have other alternatives in the neighborhood, they cannot constrain ego's behavior.