Abandoning small extended-family households to move into these large pueblos with dozens if not hundreds of other people was probably traumatic.
抛弃小型的大家庭，和几十甚至几百人一起搬到这些大的村落里，这可能是痛苦的。
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The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extendedfamily.
这位在这样一个社区里的孕妇拥有她那大家庭中所有女性的支持。
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In studying ethnic minority families, the researchers would likely discover that the extendedfamily is more frequently a support system in ethnic minority families than in White American families.