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Role of the Family
Title: Role of the Family
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Role of the Family
The Role of the Family
Family systems, like biological organisms, evolve with time and circumstance.
It seems readily evident from an examination of the nature and role of the family in the developing world that form may indeed follow function. Many sociological studies conducted in recent years have indicated that the nuclear family is found at both the primitive and modern stages of economic evolution. The nuclear family predominated
in early societies with subsistence hunting
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The basic family unit has always been extremely important, and although many changes in the family’s role and importance have occurred as modernization spreads across the world, the traditional family structure appears to be very durable.
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