SOCA01H3 Lecture : Families Lecture note
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Kind of marriage : if the common law marriage splits up, you may still be looking at payments. It looks on families as curtail for society: society could not survive without the family as its most basic and fundamental unit. In this culture people trace their ancestry through their mothers line. Ancient egypt allowed brother sister marriages in the loyal family www. notesolution. com: maintain the purity of the aerostatic blood line, in hawaii, they offered this as well, canadian m tis (half french canadian and aboriginal) It keeps it out of the family and the wider kinship network: another reason for out-marriage is to form alliances (applied in the past, improve your social standing, social identity is given to you by your family. Hispanics lived the longest because they have a tighter family network. The family in hispanic culture is very important: single men die 8 years on average before married men.
