Conventional wisdom suggests that good friendships enhance an individual's sense of happiness and overall well-being. Indeed, a number of studies have found that strong social supports improve a woman ...
Autism Children with autism spectrum disorders usually have some difficulty forming friendships. Certain symptoms of autism can interfere with the formation of interpersonal relations, such as a prefe ...
Making a friend Three significant factors make the formation of a friendship possible:proximity, which means being near enough to see each other or do things together;repeatedly encountering the perso ...
In the typical sequence of an individual's emotional development, friendships come after parental bonding and before pair bonding. In the intervening period between the end of early childhood and the ...
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic fields suc ...
Family medicine Main article: Family medicineFamily medicine is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages; it is based on knowledge of the patient in the context ...
Further information: Work–life balance and Work–family balance in the United StatesWork-family balance is a concept involving proper prioritizing between work/career and family life. It includes iss ...
Reproductive rights Main article: Reproductive rightsFurther information: Forced sterilization, Forced pregnancy, and Forced abortionReproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to repro ...
Natalism is the belief that human reproduction is the basis for individual existence, and therefore promotes having large families. Many religions, e.g., Islam, Christianity and Judaism, encourage the ...
Main article: Domestic violenceFurther information: Forced marriage and Child marriageDomestic violence (DV) is violence that happens within the family. The legal and social understanding of the conce ...
Social Darwinists Early scholars of family history applied Darwin's biological theory of evolution in their theory of evolution of family systems. American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan published Anc ...
Most Western societies employ Eskimo kinship terminology. This kinship terminology commonly occurs in societies based on conjugal (or nuclear) families, where nuclear families have a degree of relativ ...
Degrees of kinship Family in a wagon, Lee County, Mississippi, August 1935.A first-degree relative is one who shares 50% of your DNA, such as a full sibling, parent or progeny.Kinship Closeness Geneti ...
The diverse data coming from ethnography, history, law and social statistics, establish that the human family is an institution and not a biological fact founded on the natural relationship of consang ...
One of the primary functions of the family is to produce and reproduce persons, biologically and/or socially. This can occur through the sharing of material substances (such as food); the giving and r ...
