Neolocal residence is the post-marital residence pattern in which a newly married couple establishes an independent household separate from both spouses' natal families, forming the residential core of a nuclear family rather than joining either side's existing household. It is the dominant pattern in modern Western nations and is becoming more common in other economically developed countries.
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Descent RuleSourced to the subject's own accountA residence rule rather than a descent rule proper: no descent group is presumed to co-reside with the couple, since the new household stands apart from both natal families. The pattern presumes and reinforces a bilateral, weakly corporate kinship system rather than a strong unilineal one, the opposite structural logic from patrilocal or matrilocal residence. 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountThe dominant post-marital residence pattern in modern Western nations, having originated in Northwestern Europe before spreading to British colonial settler societies in the Americas; increasingly common in other economically developed countries, including Japan. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Neolocal Residence
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Neolocal residence is a type of post-marital residence in which a newly married couple resides separately from both the husband's natal household and the wife's natal household.
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Currently, neolocal residence is more commonly found in the west, and is becoming more common in countries that have experienced economic development, like Japan.
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