Question

Describe the family into which you were born. That is, were your parents married when you were born? If so, would you characterize their marriage as endogamous or exogamous? Did you live in a nuclear or extended family? Provide as much detail as you can about your family experience, demonstrating your knowledge of terms and concepts from this chapter.

Answer 1

My parents had endogamous which was within same caste, or ethnic group. Usually people in India prefer endogamous marriages where people or parents usually want to have bride or give their daughters to same caste, religion as their. And all the marriages are monogamy, there are no divorces in my family as such. Hence the concept of god, or the religion were very much familiar for my mom. She didn't had to learn anything new.

Basically wavelength matches when you marry people from same community, love or infatuation disappears when you marry for many years and when real side come into picture. I lived in nuclear family but as family we were very close to our relatives. It was very happy family of just four of us, where father was strict and mother was loving and we both me and my sister fought and loved each other.

I also had an endogamous marriage, currently I am staying with my in-laws. My sister is married to one our our kins.