Cultural Family Structures

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Across
  1. 2. a culture with a history of matrilineal traditions
  2. 4. couples are expected to establish residences of their own choice
  3. 6. couples are expected to move with or near the husband's family
  4. 8. societies with ancestry and inheritance passed from fathers to sons
  5. 11. taboos forbidding marriage between certain relatives
  6. 12. the tendency of people to marry people similar to themselves (by race and class, for example)
  7. 14. a country with patriarchal and patrilocal traditions
  8. 15. marriage of one man to two or more women
  9. 17. marriage between partners of different age, race, class, etc.
  10. 20. a society with a bilineal tradition
  11. 21. the oldest woman in the family has authority
  12. 23. norms that require a person to marry outside their group or family
  13. 24. societies with ancestry and inheritance passed from mothers to daughters
  14. 25. marriage of one person to more than one person
Down
  1. 1. societies with ancestry and inheritance passed from fathers & mothers to daughters & sons
  2. 3. the oldest man in the family has authority
  3. 5. men and women have equal authority
  4. 7. a region where most societies are egalitarian
  5. 9. norms that require people to marry people similar to them (by race or class, for example)
  6. 10. marriage of one woman to more than one man
  7. 13. marriage of one person to one other person
  8. 16. an example of a country with a patrilineal society
  9. 18. a family with more than two adult generations living in the same household and sharing resources
  10. 19. couples are expected to move with or near the wife's family
  11. 22. a family of parent or parents and their child or children