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Family The Best Kinship In The World
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Barney Garcia
SUMMARY:
A family is a domestic group of people who are either related by birth, by marriage or through other legal relationships that include domestic partnership, surnames, and adoption or by simple ownership. |
A family is a domestic group of people who are either related by birth, by marriage or through other legal relationships that include domestic partnership, surnames, and adoption or by simple ownership. Article 16(3) of Universal Declaration of Human Rights says The Family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by the society and State.
Types of family
As per the researches of sociology and anthropology, the primary function of the family is reproducing society, either socially, or biologically or through both the ways. Anywhere in the world, the structure of families traditionally begins with relations between parents and children, between spouses and other relatives.
There are basically four major types of families prevalent:
§ Patrifocal a family that consists of father and children and more popular in Islamic States.
§ Matrifocal a family that consists of a mother and children.
§ Conjugal consists of one or more mothers and their children and one/ or more spouses. Common where division of labor exists with participation of both men and women.
§ Consanguineal this consists of one or more mother, children and other people [specially the family of the mother]. This family is more common where mothers cannot nurture their children, and specially where property is inherited.
In United States and Europe, the term nuclear family refers to conjugal families. But sociologists describe conjugal families as those who are relatively independent of the kindred of the parents and other families in general, and nuclear family refers to those who maintain relatively close ties with their kindred.
Kinship factors in family
Kinship is a specific system referring to people enjoying familial relationships. The kinship terminology is more common in societies that are based on conjugal families.
Members of nuclear family use the following kinship terms:
§ Mother the female parent
§ Father the male parent
§ Daughter the females born baby of the mother
§ Son the male born baby of the mother
§ Brother the male born of the same mother
§ Sister the female born of the same mother
§ Grandfather a parents father
§ Grandmother a parents mother
§ Grandson a childs son
§ Granddaughter a childs daughter
However, there are some relationships that are collateral:
§ Uncle fathers brother, fathers sisters husband, mothers sisters husband and mothers brother
§ Aunt fathers brothers wife, mothers sister, fathers sister, and mothers sisters husband
§ Nephew brothers son and sisters son
§ Niece brothers daughters and sisters daughters
§ Cousins- children of aunts and uncles
However, the terms half brother and half-sister refers to siblings who can share only one parent.
It is family basically that sustains you throughout your lifetime, so everyone should love and care for their family to enjoy happy relationships in their life.
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