Question

Define family and its classification and elaborate the diverse forms of the family and contradictions in matrilineal system? 

Answer 1

Anthropologists generally classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children); patrifocal (a father and his children); conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended ( ...