Family patterns vary from one
society to another. Some of the various kinds of families include:
(a) Monogamous
family:
This consists of one husband and
one wife at a time with their children. This is often referred to as the
nuclear family.
(b) Polygamous
family:
This is a family in which the
husband marries more than one wife at a time and all of them live in his house.
(c) Monandrous
family:
This is a family in which the woman
marries a man and brings him to her house to live. She exercises control over
the household and the children belongs to her. This is a matrineal household.
(d) Polyandrous
family:
This is a family in which a woman
marries more than one man at a time and brings them to leave in her house. She
exercises control over the household and the children belongs to her. It is
also a matrilineal household.
(e) Group family:
In this family, men, by
arrangement married several women. There is no sexual prohibition. The men,
women and the children in the group form the family. The male children can have
sexual intercourse with any female including mothers. It is an extreme form of
communal life.
(f) The Extended
family:
This is the traditional family
set up in Africa. It comprises the entire lineage of a given family.
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