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Mothers' rights movements focus on maternal health, workplace issues such as labor rights, breastfeeding, and rights in family law. The fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support, that affect fathers and their children. [139]
1. The family shall be the natural unit and basis of society. It shall be protected by the State which shall take care of its physical health and moral. 2. The State shall have the duty to assist the family which is the custodian of morals and traditional values recognized by the community.
The definition of this type of house may vary between legal jurisdictions or statistical agencies. The definition, however, generally includes two elements: Single-family (home, house, or dwelling) means that the building is usually occupied by just one household or family and consists of just one dwelling unit or suite.
Family estrangement is the loss of a previously existing relationship between family members, through physical and/or emotional distancing, often to the extent that there is negligible or no communication between the individuals involved for a prolonged period. Estrangement may result from the direct interactions between those affected ...
The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a person's family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a person's parents, siblings, spouse, and children. [ 1] It can contain others connected by birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation, such as ...
Nuclear family. An American nuclear family composed of the mother, father, and their children, c. 1955. A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family[ 1] or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. It is in ...
Multifamily residential, also known as multidwelling unit (MDU)) is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. [ 1] Units can be next to each other (side-by-side units), or stacked on top of each other (top and bottom ...
Pater familias. The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias ( pl.: patres familias ), [ 1] was the head of a Roman family. [ 2] The pater familias was the oldest living male in a household, and could legally exercise autocratic authority over his extended family. The term is Latin for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family ...