Sunday, July 20, 2014

Family and Life at Home

A nuclear family consists of a father, a mother, and their biological children.


An extended family is a large group of relatives, usually including at least three generations. They typically live either in one household or in close proximity.


This Pakistani couple is practicing endogamy, which is the custom of marrying within one's social group. This could be within race, ethnicity, class, religion, region or nationality. 

This Filipino woman and American man are practicing exogamy, which is marriage between people from different social groups. 


There is a significantly greater occurrence of single mothers than single fathers. 




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