Dadi Family Patterns

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Dadi is a group of people in northern India, the village consist of five hundred families, people who are related by ties of marriage, blood, or social/ legal affirmation. These families live with an established residence of patrilocal, meaning the household consist of the husband’s parents, brothers and their brother’s wives and children. Dadi’s families have post-marital patterns and pros and cons for each of the family members. Mosuo on the other hand is an ethnic group from southwestern China who also live in a patrilocal community but have matrilineal ties meaning they help each others family but live with their own. In this society the women have different positions than in the Dadi society.
Patterns of post-martial in Dadi families start at beginning of the marriage of husband and wife. The wedding will be held at the bride’s house with her family and closest friends. The husband’s family does not attend the wedding and waits for the ceremony to finish and the newly weds to arrive home so they can …show more content…

The father-in-law gets to keep his son which means he does not lose a worker on the farm, however he now has to harvest more food for the extra mouths to feed. The daughter-in-law gets a family who will take care of her and her children, nevertheless has to give up her own family. The sister-in-law now has someone else to help take care of her children, but has a possibility that the other sisters will not like her. The husband now has a wife and gets to stay with his family, however if his family does not like his wife he will be criticized. The children have more of a chance of their family being able to afford an education for them, however they will also have to help with tasks around the house while performing the tasks for

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