That's because, as ties are weakened in the extended families, those who didn't learn how to raise children from their own parents don't know how to interact gently with their children.
Because people move away from their extended families, traditions are lost, which is why it is important to document them whether they are active traditions or not.
In countries with no welfare state, where a new and vibrant urban capitalism is loosening the old bonds of extended families, private insurance is the best bulwark against the vagaries of fate.
Given certain conditions, we can all have affairs, destroying the happiness of our spouse, our children, our extended families, our lover, and ourselves.
In the old days, Chinese people preferred to live in extended families with up to four generations under the same roof... now things are quite different.
Samoan culture is very localized, and centered on tight-knit extended families, whereas Western societies tend to be highly individualistic and homophobic.
"I would imagine that many of these mortuary caves are for large extended families," Aldenderfer said.
The neighbors usually know the children's backgrounds and extended families.
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