The we connotes community the extended family system.

The extended family system pools its resources together.

Living in an extended family provides many things that a nuclear family does not.

Family planning services have currently been extended to youth.

Now, that welcome is extended to this larger family.

We're all effectively part of an extended African family.

Within the cultures of these peoples, the family, particularly the extended family, plays a significant role.

I worry because all around me, even within my extended family,

Ambassador Reimaa is leaving Geneva with his family, but he is leaving behind his extended family of admirers.

The extended family, indeed, remains central even in the large enterprise sector.

The extended family, in both the ascending and descending lines, is recognized.

In your family, and this includes your extended family... in other words, your entire family, is there anyone that might be worth knowing?

They lived in extended families and the oldest person within such an extended family presided over ceremonies and conducted reconciliation procedures.

16.1 The family in Vanuatu includes the extended family which consists of the children's grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and in laws.

She felt rejected by her extended family as a result of a failed marriage.

69. Vast displacement has resulted in a general breakdown of the extended family system.

So now we have a whole extended bacteria family, filled with virus sleeper cells.

Also, we had to make a report on our extended visited members, that is, extended members of the family, sick and elderly, shut in.

An extended family is a family that extends beyond the immediate family, consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all living nearby or in the same household.

The basic family unit is the extended family, although there has been a growing trend towards nuclear families for socio economic reasons.

The family, including the extended family, is the core of social organization, with the village (nuku) being the foundation of Tokelauan society.

Discrimination extended also to citizenship rights, family codes, pension law and the administration of justice.

It's good that compassion was extended beyond the family by this kind of evolutionary logic.

I worry because all around me, even within my extended family, I see religion being manipulated.

And the group is growing, as children get married, and so their extended family gets added.

The term can refer to any extended family, polyamorous or to a polygamy of any type.

Special attention was called to the situation of single parent families and traditional extended family structures.

Staying with relatives in extended family units is a better solution than uprooting the child completely.

These extended family members tend to gather often for family events and to feel responsible for helping and supporting one another, both emotionally and financially.

Staying with relatives in extended family units is a better solution than uprooting the child completely. apos quot

By the same token, our mental image of the multigenerational extended family needs to include those in the West.

Economic background Economic background has become a very prominent factor in the likelihood of living in an extended family.

Preference was given to the education of sons, who were expected to become the breadwinners of the extended family.

In Libya, Khadija Teri describes how Eid is smoother away from the prying eyes of the extended family. She explains

By contrast, the extended family is giving way in India to nuclear families, which now account for 64 of households.

As has been practiced from time immemorial, social security for the majority of the population is cared by the extended family.

Only if she was not able to do so owing to illness or economic hardship would the extended family take charge.

Sexual assault and coercion can occur at all stages of a woman's life, whether in the context of marriage, between close family or extended family members, between acquaintances or total strangers.

It is therefore important to provide follow up for children who have been reunited with their family or extended family and to identify which organization will be responsible for that task.

Dependency rates changed dramatically with a high incidence of HIV AIDS, since most victims could no longer contribute to the economy and became increasingly dependent on the family or extended family.

They are also a time when the value of the extended family network can really be seen in action. In the past marriages were arranged between the bridegroom's family and the family of the bride, usually through uncles or a highly placed male in the family.

Those of us who live on this continent are now rediscovering a great deal about the family and the community from Native American culture. In that culture, the concept of the family includes the immediate family, the extended family, the community and even the natural world.

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Again, no. Ours is a thoroughly democratic society, and our strong, extended family system makes our leaders, if anything, even more accountable.

Throughout Asia, despite the great diversity of its cultural, social and economic conditions, the nuclear family is becoming more common, replacing to some extent the large, extended family which had been the norm.