The Five Relationships are "love between father and son, duty between ruler and subject, distinction between husband and wife, precedence of the old over the young, and faith between friends.... This is based on an understanding that among the five relationships, only the father-son relationship is unchangeable. Confucians believe that when the father-son relationship is properly maintained, the other relationships will be dealt with properly because "One who respects his parents will not behave arrogantly to others.... The first textual evidence for the idea of Three Bonds occurs i...

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In Yanomamo society, marriages are arranged by a father, but, in the case of absence of a father, they are arranged by elder men of their kinship or elder male friends. ... They consider their sons and daughters within the web of marriage exchanges with allied lineage group. ... The father's brothers and father are called haya, and distinguished from mother's brother, soaya. As for the mother's sisters and mother, they are called, naya, and distinguished from father's sister, yesiya. From these terms, we can recognize that they clearly classify the father's side...

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A patriarchal family is; authority held by the eldest male, usually the father. ... At some point, often at puberty but sometimes earlier, sons left their mother's hut to join the men of the lineage segment, but they never severed the mother-son emotional bond" (107.) ... In a normal patriarchal family the father would take control of all the mother's responsibility's as stated above in the family. ... The roles a father would typically play in today's typical patriarchal family the mother took those roles back in the slave era making in a matriarchal family. The mother...

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Billy and Ruth Graham, grew up hating being introduced as "Billy Graham's son." ... His father's fame and extended absences from home by preaching missions all over the world tore the father-son relationship apart. ... Not only did I have my mother and father to raise me, but also the entire congregation thought of me as their own. ... Having a father as a minister can be more frustrating than one would think. ... I can remember when I was little, I felt abandoned when my father's life was too full of other things. ...

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In the patriarchal European society continued into the colonies of the Americas the husband and father holds all property and right. ... As a further blow to the family, beyond the death of the father, to help pay off the debts and affairs, the children were bound out as servants. ... Hannah Deake's father was actually quite a wealthy man himself, and should have had more than the means to take care of his extended progeny. ... Foster's actions seem especially drastic considering his blood relation and also his three wealthy sons (to whom he left his fortune) to whom he could have bo...

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He discusses six key points: fathers are essential, but problematic; the role of fatherhood within marriage; the shrinking fatherly expectations; the debate over the importance of fatherhood; the necessity of fathers and mothers; and the correlations between fatherhood, marriage, and the good society. ... Popenoe acknowledges the fact that fathers are not always positive role models, and that "across societies, fathers may or may not be closely engaged with their children, reside with the mother, or see their father role as highly important" (1996: 322). ... Another factor is the "Shrinking...

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Before Antigone commits suicide, Haemon agrees with his father's verdict to kill his bride, Antigone. Haemon tells his father, "I"m your son you in your wisdom set my bearings for me-I obey you", revealing his loyalty to his father and acknowledgment and respect for his father's authority (lines 709-710). ... However, in a later section of the play, Haemon attempts to kill his father because he believes his father causes Antigone to kill herself. ... However, under the pressure of Creon, where Haemon felt obligated to comply with his father's civil laws, Haemon felt he could ...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Critics also accused her of unpatriotic lavishness in her entertaining while after her son Willie's death in 1862, they criticized her of avoidance of her social duties. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself ab...

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As for me, my mother, father, younger brother, and younger sister are my family and this may be different for some people. ... In my grandmothers family in Pakistan her family consist of her husband, her son, her daughter-in-law, and her grandkids. ... Where as in New York I have seen most people have developed or taught to develop that a nuclear family is an ideal structure, a 60-year-old idea where a family consist of a mother, a father, and their children. ...

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In my own family, my paternal grandmother was beaten by her husband, my grandfather, and my own mother was similarly abused by my father, partly due to such dowry customs. ... Greedy families would then arrange another marriage for their sons in order to obtain another dowry from another bride's family. ... Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the family line, but also bring in a dowry, thereby increasing the family wealth, and daughters would have the opposite effect. ... My grandf...

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In my own family, my paternal grandmother was beaten by her husband, my grandfather, and my own mother was similarly abused by my father, partly due to such dowry customs. ... Greedy families would then arrange another marriage for their sons in order to obtain another dowry from another bride's family. ... Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the family line, but also bring in a dowry, thereby increasing the family wealth, and daughters would have the opposite effect. ... My grandf...

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This is spoken to quite clearly when Jeremy Goldberg stated that marriages "would be a business transaction in which the girl was merely chattel transferred from the patriarchal authority of her father to her husband " (Goldberg 26). ... However, her sons " another example of how low even the writers of the time thought of women " saves her candidacy by bringing aboard the ark. ... As a youthful, incredibly beautiful girl working for her father, Griselda lives a life of service. She is arranged to marry the lord of the region she lives in by her father and the lord himself, Walter....

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Tevye makes comments on the fact that he has never heard of a young man being the matchmaker, the groom, and the father-in-law at the same time. ... Another hard situation for Tevye is the case of his daughter Shprintze falling in love with Ahronchik, who is the son of a wealthy widow. ...

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Additionally, the presence of Gloria's son in the film represents the present situation of blended families and increase in step siblings and step children in the American families. ... This setting includes a working father, a stay at home mother and children. ...

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By the time of her death, she seemed to have accomplished this, with all of her children having successful careers and even managing to convince their father of the happy family' illusion. ... Unfortunately one introduction had a less-than desired effect; the eldest son Cody, also scarred by his parents' broken down marriage, saw his opportunity to get even' with his brother. ...

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When Anglo Saxon family's had children, sons and daughters were considered equally important and both would be heir in their parents wills (Brown 63). ... The new government changed marriage and instead of getting to decide who they wanted to marry, women were bound by "an economic contract, arranged by the father without need to consult his daughter. ...

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It has been suggested that multiple wives are valued in the first instance, for economic reasons, while in the latter instance, they are valued for reproductive reasons in that the taking of multiple wives maximizes the potential to produce sons, who in turn make an economic contribution (Malinowski 1962). ... Women play a crucial role in this process, since they gather and control other women as wives and companions for brothers, sons, and husbands. ...

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First, modern family has decreased in the areas of family size; the family usually has two generations consisting of father and mother and their children. ... The only responsibility to women is produced more and more sons. ...

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