... group characterised by common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults". Murdock was a functionalist therefore suggestively did not consider other alternatives to what a family could be, to me his definition of family is ... socialisation and culture, sexual to bring husband and wife together and reproductive to provide members for society, also for the functionalist point of view that a family was ...

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... (Galinsky 1987). As far as Myra is concerned she is in what Bigner describes as Erikson's Indutry vs. Inferiority or the fourth stage of personal development or the stage when Children busily learn to be competent and productive or feel inferior and unable to do anything well (Bigner 1998). Myra is at the point in her life where her world extends ... ...

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