Family Relationship

2. The practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.
4. Partner must be chosen from the same group, tribe etc.
6. The offence of marrying someone while already married to another person.
7. Social system in which women hold the primary power positions in roles of authority.
8. Money or objects that someone gives you when they die.
11. A family structure in which mothers head families and fathers play a less important role in the home and in bringing up children.
14. An official announcement that something such as a law, agreement, or marriage no longer exists.
15. Refers to a family in which the father takes the lead role in making decisions and raising children.
16. Relative rank that an individual holds, with attendant rights, duties, and lifestyle, in a social hierarchy based upon honor or prestige
17. Official public statement of one’s intention to marry
19. The legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.
21. Relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line.
26. An arrangement by which a couple remain married but live apart, following a court order.
27. The practice of marrying or state of being married to one person at a time.

1. Relating to or denoting a system of society or government controlled by men.
3. Refers to a woman who has multiple husbands
5. Refers to a man who has multiple wives.
9. There is an equal sharing of authority mother and father.
10. The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship.
12. Refers to the relationship between family members.
13. Getting to know a variety of partners.
18. Partner must be chosen from outside his or her own group or tribe
20. Refers to familial relationships that can be traced through a female.
22. A couple that lives together without any legal contract.
23. Financial support that a person is ordered by a court to give to their spouse during separation or following divorce.
24. Sexual relations between people classed as being too closely related to marry each other.
25. Descent through both male and female line.