Family meaning and types

for LLB family Law

2. Family is one of the most important social institutions.
Most of the world’s population lives in family units; it is an
important primary group in the society.
Family is the most pervasive and universal social institution. It
plays a vital role in the socialization of individuals.
Family is regarded as the first society of human beings.
It is known as the first school of citizenship.
One is born in family, grows in it, works for itad dies in it. One
develops emotional attachment to it.
The parental care imparts to the child the first lesson in social
responsibility and acceptance of self-discipline.
Family is the backbone of social structure. It occupies a nuclear
position in society.

3. “The family is the basic primary group and the natural matrix of
personality” -Mack and Young
Family is a group defined by sexual relationship, sufficiently precise
and enduring to provide for the procreation and upbringing of
children.’–Maclver
‘The family, almost without question, is the most important of any groups
that human experience offers … the family … is with us always, or more
precisely, we are with it.-Robert .B
‘Family is a more or less durable association of husband and wife, with
or without child, or of a man or woman alone, with children.
’–M. F. Nimkoff
‘Family is the biological social unit composed of husband, wife and
children.’-Eliot and Merrill
Family is a group of persons, whose relations to one another are based
upon consanguinity and who are therefore kin to one another.
 -k.Davis

4. 1. Universality
2. Emotional basis
3. Limited size
4. Nuclear position
5. Formative influence
6.Responsibility of the Members
7.Social Regulation
8. Persistence and Change

5. 1. A Mating Relationship
2. A Form of Marriage:
3. A Common Habitation:
4. A System of Nomenclature:
5. An Economic provision
6. System of Interaction and Economic
Communication

6. Essential functions:
1.Satisfaction of Sex Needs
2. Reproduction
3. Sustenance Function
4. Provision of a Home:
5. Socialization
Non-Essential Functions:
Economic Functions, Property
Transformation, Religious Function,
Educative , Recreational functions

8. Nature Types
1.On the Basis ofAuthority Patriarchal Family
Matriarchal Family
2.On the Basis ofOrganization Nuclear family
Joint family
Extended family
3.On the Basis ofResidence: Patrilocal,Matrilocal
Neolocal ,Avunculocal Family
4.The Basis of Descent Patrilineal Family
Matrilineal Family
5.On the Basis ofMarriage Monogamous ,Polygamous
Polygynous,Polyandrous family
6.In-group and Out-group
Affiliation
Endogamous Family
Exogamous Family
7.On the basis ofBlood-
relationship
Consanguine Family
Conjugal Family
8.On basis of birth Family orientation
Family procreation