An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family of parents and their children to include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins or other relatives, living nearby or in the same household. It is the basic family unit across most of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and among Indigenous peoples such as Native Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Latin American and Caribbean societies. In Britain and the United States, more people lived in extended families during the Industrial Revolution, roughly 1750 to 1900, than at any time before or since. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Descent RuleSourced to the subject's own accountParents, children and additional kin, most often grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins, sharing one household or living nearby in close, regular cooperation and pooling resources, contrasted with the two-generation nuclear family. 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountThe basic family unit across most of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and among Indigenous peoples such as Native Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Latin American and Caribbean societies; historically dominant over the nuclear family in Britain and the United States during the Industrial Revolution (approximately 1750 to 1900). 1 Connections
Held Differently
Why this is disputed. Contrasting household-composition patterns; which one is the more common or foundational human family form is a live scholarly dispute, not a settled classification (see the Nuclear Family typical-region fact and the wave's open question).
Associated With
Extended family households, spanning multiple generations and collateral kin under one roof or compound, are the basic residential and economic unit out of which larger segmentary lineage systems are built.
Stem family is a single-heir extended-family variant first described by Frederic Le Play.
One of the two household-composition patterns the family institution can take; see also Nuclear Family.
Studied By
Source Wikipedia: Robert Redfield
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Extended Family
WikipediaIntroduction and cultural-distribution sections
An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family of parents and their children to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or other relatives, all living nearby or in the same household.
Cultural distribution section
In many cultures, such as in those of Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, Indigenous peoples like Native Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Latin Americans and Caribbeans...extended families are the basic family unit.
Body
The joint family system is an extended family arrangement prevalent throughout the Indian subcontinent, particularly in India, consisting of many generations living in the same home, all bound by the common relationship.
View the Source Wikipedia: Robert Redfield
WikipediaStudied By: Robert Redfield, University of Chicago Anthropology section, Vonnegut recollectionQuote, Studied By: Robert Redfield, University of Chicago Anthropology section, Vonnegut recollection
when I went to the University of Chicago, and I heard the head of the Department of Anthropology, Robert Redfield, lecture on the folk society, which was essentially a stable, isolated extended family, he did not have to tell me how nice that could be.
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