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The human family is a group composed of a woman, her dependent children, and at least one adult male joined through marriage or blood relationship.
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The human family is a group composed of a woman, her dependent children, and at least one adult male joined through marriage or blood relationship. The family may take many forms, ranging all the way from a single married couple with their children, as in Chinese society, to a large group composed of several brothers and sisters with their children. The particular form taken by the family is related to particular social, historical, and ecological circumstances. The family, long regarded Chinese as a critically necessary, core social institution, today has become a matter for controversy and discussion. Traditionally, the Chinese family system has operated to bind women to their reproductive function. Until relatively recently, motherhood has been central to our society's definition of the adult female-the notion that a woman must have children and rear them well. Chinese family patterns have implied that sex is inevitably connected with reproduction....
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