This lesson will focus on the families and families types in Asia

1. Asian Families

2.  Last (v): to continue to exist
 Duty (n) something that you have to do because
it is part of your job, or something that you feel
is the right thing to do
 Obligation (n) something that you must do
 Knit (v) to join together
 Kinship (n) the relationship between members of
the same family, or a feeling of being close or
similar to other people or things

3.  Patrilineal (v) establishing family membership
by considering only male relations.
 Inheritance (n) money or objects that
someone gives you when they die .
 To be descended from sb (v) to be related to
a particular person or group of people who
lived in the past .
 Clan (n) a group of families, especially in
Scotland, who originally came from the same
family and have the same name

4.  A family is a small
group of people who
consider their
relationship with
each other close and
lasting.

5. The three types of
families are:
 Nuclear family: small
group forming a family
has only a man, a
woman and their
children.

6.  Extended family:
there are other
relatives join the
nuclear family.

7.  Polygamous family:
a man may have
more than one wife
or a woman may
have more than one
husband.

8. Polygamous family:
 Polygyny: Having more than one wife at the
same time.
 Polyandry: Having more than one husband at
the same time

9.  The extended family was the common family type
(Asia and Europe).
 The extended family consists of a man and his wife
together with their unmarried children as well as
married sons, their wives and their children.
 All members of extended family may live in the same
house or separate house.
 All members of extended family come under the
control of the head of the family

10.  The head of the family is usually the father or
eldest brother.
 The head of the family is responsible for the
welfare of all member and make important
decision for all member.
 The senior female is usually wife of head of
family which take charge of all domestic
affairs and controls all other women.

11.  Food for the whole family is prepared jointly
in a common kitchen by all the women.
 All member of an extended family dine
together.

12.  All male members of the family are closely
related to each other.
 It is through the head of his family that a man
gain identity, his place in society, and his
inheritance.
 All men who are descended from a common
male ancestor or forefather form groups
known as kinship Group.

13.  Member of kinship group help each other and
support each other.
 Kinsmen play important part in family
ceremonies such as marriage, funeral and
religion rite performed by a family.
 Clan is group that are larger than kinship.
 Clansmen are not as closely related to each other
as kinsmen but they help each other in business
and trade.

14.  In Java, a family consists of a husband and
wife with children and one or two relative of
the husband or the wife.
 In Viet Nam the extended family consisting of
three generation is common in rural area, the
nuclear family consist of parents and
unmarried children.

15.  The senior male member is the most important
person in Vietnamese family structure.
 The senior male refer to as owhich mean head of
family.
 Truong Tuc is responsible to maintain the graves
of ancestors and make ceremonies and ritual and
also act as a judge in family dispute

16.  Trend means general direction.
 The trend in Asia today is toward nuclear
families.
 Modern life in Asia tend to break down
extended families because it is easier for the
nuclear family to move from one place to
other to work.

17.  It is hard to get and maintain the larger home
in the city.
 In Vietnam and China, the government
discourage extended families
 The simple extended family in Vietnam and
China is aged couple with unmarried sons.

18. The polygamous families are divided into:
 Polygyny: Having more than one wife at the
same time.
 Polyandry: Having more than one husband at
the same time

19.  With permission of her husband, a Toda
woman can have permanent relation with
other men.
 Toda believe that a husband who disapproves
of his wife having relation with other men will
go to hell.
 Unlike polyandry, polygyny is much more
common but it was against by law.

20.  Islam allows its followers to have up to four
wives at the same time because it is rather
easy for a Muslim man to divorce his wife and
marry another.
 Nowadays, the very high divorce rate among
the Muslim of Indonesia and Malaysia is
dropping.