family grouping

Example Sentences

• "This close family grouping may be a fairly recent development, for Lang and Tastevin (1937, p. 70) report that the Mwila once lived in villages of fifteen or twenty families consisting of approximately one hundred people and that, at the time they were writing, five or six families still grouped around a chief."
• "This strategy of family grouping and sharing of responsibilities appears to be designed to enable coati mothers to devote more time to searching for food, rather than having to individually protect their young."
• "Frude's (1990) discussion of the psychological definition of family, further elaborated in Chapter 2, accords well with family nursing, in that it recognises the non-traditional family groupings such as cohabiting couples, blended families, homosexual couples and any variations on traditional family groupings which may be encountered when working with families from cultures other than that of the host country."
• "However, cross-cultural studies have found that the nuclear family is more a feature of modern Euro-American society than a universal reality. Subsequently another view gained ground: the really universal family grouping is the mother and her children, often called the matri-central cell."
• "Indeed, viewing Jewish women by family formation and moving from the more mature family groupings to the youngest family groupings, the data indicate a dramatic decline in employment in clerical and technical capacities and a corresponding increase in those employed in professional capacities."
• "The three sorts of tensions discussed here, then, generally elicit open resistance only when one family grouping is thought to be favored or disfavored over others. In such cases, the spokesperson for the family grouping generally approaches the foreman with the family's grievance."