Family can be taken to mean a unit consisting of husband and wife, and their children, (Moses andAdewale 2002). Moses, Patric and Olarenwaju (2001) quoting Otite and Ogion (1981) reported thatfamily as a bio-social group, meaning that family has both biological and social aspects. Moses andAdewale (2002) quoting Murdrock (1965) defines family as a social group characterized by commonresidence, economic, cooperation, and reproduction. They reported that family is a group of personsunited by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption constituting a single house hold; interacting andcommunicating with each other in their respective social role of husband and wife, mother and father,brother and sister, as well as maintaining a common culture. Moses, Patrick, and Olarenwaju (2001)classified family into extended and nuclear family based on the kinship system; this system is based onblood relation and marriage. Based on Lifecycle family, they also grouped family into family oforientation and family of procreation. While on the basis of modernization, they further grouped familyinto traditional family, modern family, and post-modern family. It is basically a microcosm of largersociety, so any tension in family creates tension in the society at large.
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