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She was an AIDS orphan being handed across different extended families to be cared for.

With extended families, distant relatives may not know one another.

Suddenly three or four extended families were often packed into a courtyard house that had once been occupied by a single family.

In industrial societies today, the members of most nuclear families live together, but most extended families do not live together.

Egyptians prepared for the first day of fasting, gathering extended families to break fast traditionally on Thursday with dates and milk.

All things being equal, Chinese managers would prefer to work close to their immediate and extended families.

These cultures reinforce extended families and collectives where everyone takes responsibility for fellow members of their group.

More often, Afghan widows are shrouded from view, ordered by male relatives in extended families to stay at home.

The Cook Islands community is intricately woven often with large extended families living in a single house, or collection of houses.

but most extended families do not live together.

More broadly, technology increases the role of extended families, migrants and diasporas in dealing with disaster.

Almost always, urban migrants are providing financial support to extended families back home that depend on their income.

Friction between foreign brides and their extended families is common, particularly if they don't speak a common language.

"I would imagine that many of these mortuary caves are for large extended families, " Aldenderfer said.

In extended families, older member's opinion was respected, and the youngest members are loved and taken good cane of by all.

Strong bonds among extended families, neighbourly solidarity and the Muslim tradition of charity support many of the needy.

So even prior to the Internet's widespread popularity, folks were already becoming distanced from their extended families and neighbors.

Generally several extended families live in such a compound.

More than 90 percent of our non-teaching staff are all parents and extended families.

We also visited your brothers and sister, our aunts and uncles and their extended families. They are also doing well!

Laid-off factory workers tend to return to the countryside and rely on their extended families.

In both nuclear and extended families, the culture imposes set roles upon parents.

There are basically two kinds types of families: nuclear families and extended families.

Extended families remain important to Chinese Americans.

Their extended families were some 3, 500 miles away in Pittsburgh and New Jersey, but my folks might as well have lived on the moon.

There are basically two types of families: nuclear families and extended families.

She said she considered adopting a child a rare occurrence in Japan other than within extended families.

Succession is complicated by Hong Kong's large extended families and a business culture that stresses the importance of lineage.

Two generations ago, Japanese children grew up in large extended families;

No wonder most Infosysians like to bring their extended families to tour the campus.

Discussing the Extended Families in Song Dynasty