Closely knit kin networks and ethnic behavior and identification have become associated with the adaptations of lower-class families and the immigrant generation to urban American life. It has been ...

Different languages refer to family relationships in different ways. For example, English speakers use two terms -- grandmother and grandfather -- to refer to grandparents, while Mandarin Chinese uses ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purpose of this article is to explore the patterns of economic support between kin in Côte d'Ivoire. The nuclear family has been dismissed ...