Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Murdock's functions
of the family
- Sexual
- Approved by
wider society.
- Ignores asexuals and
those with religious
beliefs against sexual
relationships.
- Heterosexual
- Must contain one
adult male and
one adult female.
- Preferably
married.
- Ignores or disregards other
family types such as gay or
lesbian and lone-parent.
- Work together and
pool resources
- Share domestic tasks.
- Share
income.
- Valid in marriages,
but not in
parent-child families.
- Reproduce
- Ignores gay relationships,
infertile men or women and
those who don't want children.
- They have at
least one child.
- Can be
biological
or adopted.
- Live together
- They share the
same household.
- Assumes anyone you
don't live with isn't family.