Also called virilocal residence: a post-marital residence pattern in which a newly married couple lives with or near the household of the husband's parents, the single most common residence pattern documented across human cultures. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Descent RuleSourced to the subject's own accountA residence rule rather than a lineage rule proper: newlyweds settle with or near the husband's father's household, and families living patrilocally generally assume joint ownership of the household's domestic resources under a senior member's management. 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountDocumented worldwide as the single most common post-marital residence pattern, found in roughly seventy percent of ethnographically studied cultures, rather than confined to one region. 1 Descent Rule
Descent Rule (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
Held Differently
Both are postmarital residence rules; bilocal residence leaves the choice of side open where patrilocal residence fixes it to the husband's family.
The direct structural counterpart of patrilocal residence, substituting the wife's kin group for the husband's.
Source Wikipedia: Matrilocal Residence
Associated With
Patrilocal residence, in which a couple settles with or near the husband family, is the residence pattern most commonly paired with patrilineal descent.
Rule Category Of
Entity-backed identity for the descent-rule category this kinship system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a kinship-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the descent-rule category this kinship system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a kinship-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the descent-rule category this kinship system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a kinship-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Patrilocal Residence
WikipediaDescription section, description
a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents
Description section, household structure
Families living in a patrilocal residence generally assume joint ownership of domestic sources.
Opening paragraph, prevalence
The practice has been found in around 70 percent of the world's modern human cultures
Lead section
In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality, also known as virilocal residence or virilocality, are terms referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents.
View the Source Wikipedia: Matrilocal Residence
Dissenting Readings (1 dissenting reading)
Description
Lewis Henry Morgan, Edward Tylor and George Peter Murdock explained postmarital residence rules, including patrilocal residence, as a consequence of the sexual division of labor between men and women. Cross-cultural tests of that hypothesis on worldwide samples failed to find a significant relationship between the two variables. Andrey Korotayev's later analysis found the relationship was real but hidden by a general non-sororal polygyny factor: a rising female contribution to subsistence tends to favor matrilocal residence, but it also tends to encourage a form of polygyny that erodes matrilocality and pushes residence back toward the patrilocal pattern. Once that polygyny factor is controlled for statistically, division of labor does predict postmarital residence, though the true relationship is more complicated than Murdock's original model expected.
A dissenting reading, from Andrey KorotayevWikipedia: Patrilocal Residence, Wikipedia
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