Ancient Egyptian Family Culture

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In Egyptian traditions, the family is the strongest force in people’s lives until they die; therefore, children respect their parents and adults in general. The father is the head of the household and is responsible for economic sustainability of the family, while the mother is the one that takes care of the children and the house duties. All men expect to marry a girl in order to continue the family lineage, and children are considered a blessing, male are considered more valuable, because at a young age they are taught to respect their elders and to help their father to work and have responsibilities, while girls usually help their mother in the house’s tasks. Children of wealthy families have the luxury of focusing primarily on their education and they live with their parents until they get married. (Arab Academy, 2013) …show more content…

Respect for their parents and taking care of them in their last days is the main duty of the bigger son or daughter, this shows how important family ties are for this culture, lineages are. And in many ways people today still share similar values and life ways. For example, in this culture they don’t many terms to refer to their relatives beyond the nuclear family, they use father and grandfather as the same, also mother and grandmother. (Brewer,

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