Topic > Family Structure and Structure: Family Structure and Value

My paternal family lives a very colonial old lifestyle, valuing family ownership and marriage. Family land served as a fulcrum for feelings of kin loyalty, solidarity, and continuity, and marriage was considered the well-being of the lineage. Raising and caring for family is pretty much all they need in their life. All people are valued and maintain genealogical lineage through work and marriage as their most prized possessions. In contrast, my maternal family lives richer lives in the United States which has a different determination regarding the value of life. Modern life has further created power distance between parents and children. Parents do not interfere much in children's lives, but let them make their own decisions and their own lives