He provided security to the family and was the overall decision maker. He was encourages to be assertive, competent, ambitious and dominative, detached and strong as a way of preparation towards social responsibility. The women were supposed to take care of the homestead by providing food, cleaning, washing, rearing of children and other domestic duties. They were supposed to be submissive and had to obey their husbands as they were thought as being weak, dependent, and under the mans authority.
Children Roles.
Children socialized according to their gender. For example, girls were taught how to help their mothers in domestic chores in preparation as wives. Boys were taught how to hunt, protect their families and other roles associated with the males. In the Maasai culture the children had to tend to their cattle, this taught the children responsibility. Since the children were considered to be very important they were put forward to carry out rituals, and when the boys grew up they were trained into warriors.
Asian Family.
The Asian family has three sections; this includes the Japanese, Indian and the Muslim Families.
The Muslim Family.
The Muslim family was the patrilocal family and therefore traced down from the male side of the family, this therefore included the grand parents, their sons with their wives and their children. The daughters usually married and would become part of another family, very rarely did they stay with their parents, and this would be if they were either unmarried or returned home after divorce. There are two main reasons why these extended families were formed; firstly, living in this way helped the families financially, since a large group of people lived together in a relatively small area and performed their daily chores together. Another reason is because of emotional link, which still exists; therefore the children even after marriage continue to live with their parents.
