Cultural Family Structures

2. a family with more than two adult generations living in the same household and sharing resources
7. couples are expected to establish residences of their own choice
8. the tendency of people to marry people similar to themselves (by race and class, for example)
10. marriage of one man to more than one woman
11. a region where most societies are egalitarian
12. couples are expected to move with or near the wife's family
16. marriage of one woman to more than one man
17. men and women have equal authority in families
18. norms that require a person to marry outside their group or family
20. societies with ancestry and inheritance passed from mothers to daughters
23. taboos forbidding marriage between certain relatives
24. an example of a country with a patrilineal society
25. societies with ancestry and inheritance passed from fathers to sons

1. marriage between partners of different age, race, class, etc.
3. a society with a bilineal tradition
4. marriage of one person to more than one person
5. couples are expected to move with or near the husband's family
6. norms that require people to marry people similar to them (by race or class, for example)
9. marriage of one person to one other person
13. a country with patriarchal and patrilocal traditions
14. the oldest man in the family has authority
15. the oldest woman in the family has authority
19. societies with ancestry and inheritance passed from fathers & mothers to daughters & sons
21. a culture with a history of matrilineal traditions
22. a family of parent or parents and their child or children