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Examine the relationship between the contemporary trends in marriage and changing forms of family.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Systems of Kinship

In classical anthropology marriage was the gateway to family. Bronisław Malinowski's principle of legitimacy held that every child needs a socially recognised father, and the standard Notes and Queries on Anthropology definition tied marriage to legitimate offspring. The contemporary claim is that changes in marriage now generate new family forms. Testing that claim shows the…

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