History of Families and Family Resource Management

By jperegrino
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    "Family" Origins

    Within the textbook, it is stated in medieval Europe (also the earliest use of the word) used the word 'family' (familia in Latin, famille in French) to describe not only members within the family, but servants other relatives within the residence.
  • Involvement at Lake Placid Conferences

    Involvement at Lake Placid Conferences

    Ellen Richard Swallows was invited by Melvil Dewey to attend these conferences with her contemporaries where she became more interested in the home economics domestic science movement.
  • Creation of the American Home Economics Association

    Creation of the American Home Economics Association

    Ellen Swallow Richards realized that so much went into creating a healthy home so she created an organization focused on finding the solutions to hers everyone's questions on household economics. She was the association's first president.

  • Description of Marriage

    Westermarck defines marriage as, "... the habit for a man and a woman to live together, to have sexual relations with one another, to rear their offspring in common, the man, being the protector supporter of his family the woman being his helpmate the nurse of his children."

  • Family Definitions (Burgess & Locke)

    "A group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption; constituting a single household; interacting communicating with each other in their respective social roles; creating maintaining a common culture." (p. 27)

  • Family Definitions (Hess pt. 2)

    "A consuming unit that is highly dependent on the economic system beyond the home, over which the family members have little control." (p. 27)

  • Family Definitions (Hess pt. 1)

    "A range of household structures that meet people's needs at various points in their lives or that are forced on them by circumstances." (p. 27)

  • Family Definitions (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences)

    "Two or more persons who share resources, share responsibility for decisions, share values goals, have a commitment to one another over time." (p. 27)
  • Family Definitions (U.S. Census Bureau)

    Family Definitions (U.S. Census Bureau)

    "A family consists of a householder one or more other people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption." (p. 28)

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