Family refers to a group of people that carry affiliations through affinity, co-residence as well as consanguinity. As per the anthropologists and sociologists the important work of the family is to carry out the reproduction process on biological or social level for the growth of the society.
When taken from the point of view of kids, the family plays a significant role for their socialization as well as encultration and hence such families are also pointed as a family of orientation. As per the notion of the parent(s), the family is basically a family of procreation. In family where there are more than one mothers and a as well as one or over one spouses mostly husbands are called as conjugal family.
It is also named as nuclear families in the western part of the world. On the other hand a consanguineal family is comprised of a mother as accompanied with her kids as well as with other human beings generally the family belonging to the mother herself. This type of families can be found where mothers are not capable enough to feed their kids and are dependant on inherited properties.
The families which includes only the mother and her kids are named as matrifocal family. The structures of the families as well as the relationships which they share internally to a large extent have an impact on the state and on institutions set up for religious purposes. According to Natalism individuals are able to continue with their existence only as a result of human reproduction and hence advocates bigger families. The religions like Judaism promote procreation and have quite a number of kids.
However currently in order to restrict the growing population a large number of people have adopted family planning measures and there can also be seen a marked downfall in the total fertility rate in all the various parts of the world. On the other hand in some countries that are witnessing population decline a lot of incentives are given out to people for opting for considerably big families as a way of improving on the reducing populations by the nation.
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