In some societies, the nuclear family plays no special role in social life, and other social units, such as extended families and descent groups, can assume many of the functions otherwise associated with the nuclear family
Descent groups typically are spread out among several villages, so that all their members do not reside together; only some of them do—those who live in a given village</b>
A kind of coming-of-age ritual, where a young woman would go through a marriage ceremony with a man, after which they might spend a few days together at her tarawad, then the man would return to his own tarawad
Ratio of divorces to marriages in the US doubled between 1960 and 1980, hovered around 50% between 1980 and 2000, and has since stabilized and declined to 46% in 2014