Diverse Family Types

1.) What is the difference between family of orientation and family of procreation?

2.)  How does the view of families differ between those of the traditional American family and those of the Chinese? How does this difference between family types affect the maintenance of their society and continuation of lineage? How does the stress on a certain parental body affect how a society is organized and why is it relevant that these lines (patrilineal or matrilineal) are chosen?

3.)  How do American families differ from other societies regarding kinship? Do you think it is more important to have a nuclear family construct composed of bilateral kinships than a matrilineal or patrilineal kinship? What might the benefits be of each?

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