Simplistic concept of families

Although legal recognition of the family may be restricted to husband, wife, children and immediate dependents, in many communities the actual family structure is far more extended. It may cover cousins, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces of any degree and also brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren, great-grandchildren; and concubines, their children and other relations. In certain communities the 'family' is anyone with the same family name.

1. Insofar as kinship patterns involve obligations which have remained despite transition from tribal to more modern society, national legal administrative procedure, often based on the western principle, is ill adapted to meet social needs. This results in continuing poverty, inadequate social security, abandoned and illegitimate children, delinquency, crime, unemployment and general family disorganization.

1. Oversimplification
2. Family structure as a barrier to progress
3. Decline of the extended family

1. Dependence within extended families
2. Confusion of paternity
3. Cohabitation

1. Socially ineffective family units
2. Restricted state support of the family
3. Reduced interior structure of families
4. Orphan children
5. Discrimination in social services
6. Discrimination against unmarried women
7. Denial of right to extended family
8. Adjustment difficulties of new urban families
9. Abandoned children

1. Desertion in marriage law

1. Social insecurity
2. Negative effects of the nuclear family
3. Jurisdictional conflict and antagonism within intergovernmental organizations
4. Inequality before the law

1. Researching family structure
2. Forming families
3. Enriching concept of families
4. Broadening legal definition of the family structure

1. Simplistic
2. Narrowmindedness
3. Narrow
4. Illegality