[ **up: [[Kinship]]** ] --- # Family [[2024-0727. Societal ideals about 'romantic' love regulate not just our expectations about sex, but also our conceptions of family and the nature of parenthood.|Societal ideals about 'romantic' love regulate not just our expectations about sex, but also our conceptions of family and the nature of parenthood.]][^1] --- ## Australia ### History #### Lone-parent/’fractured’ families [[“... there were as many lone-parent families in the nineteenth century as there are today and serial relationships, step-parenthood and boys without resident male role models have long been commonplace.”|There were as many lone-parent families in the 19th-century as today; serial relationships, step-parenthood, and boys without resident male role models have long been commonplace.]][^2] [[“Fractured families have been common to Australian life since white settlement in 1788.”|Fractured families have been common to Australian life since white settlement in 1788 (Evans, 2014-p.73)]][^3] --- ## China > Chinese people put their family in a very important position as they regard it as a means to continue the family bloodline. The continuation of the family bloodline maintains the life of the whole nation.[^4] > There is a Chinese saying that of all who lack filial piety, the worst is who has no children.[^5] [[2024-0414. A family (Jiating) is defined as a basic social and economic unit bonded by a specific form of marriage and is characterized by individuals living, working on the property, and eating together.|A family (Jiating) is defined as a basic social and economic unit bonded by a specific form of marriage and is characterized by individuals living, working on the property, and eating together.]][^6] - *see also:* [[Filial piety]] --- ### Family and the state [[2024-0414. With state control being a consistent pattern for more than 2,000 years, family (_jia_) and state (_guo_) seem inseparable in China.|With state control being a consistent pattern for more than 2,000 years, family (_jia_) and state (_guo_) seem inseparable in China.]][^7] [^1]: Carrie Jenkins, ‘[[Jenkins. ‘How a hackneyed romantic ideal is used to stigmatise polyamory’, 2017.|How a hackneyed romantic ideal is used to stigmatise polyamory]], *Aeon*, 3 February 2017, [https://aeon.co/ideas/how-a-hackneyed-romantic-ideal-is-used-to-stigmatise-polyamory](https://aeon.co/ideas/how-a-hackneyed-romantic-ideal-is-used-to-stigmatise-polyamory). [^2]: Tanya Evans, ‘[[Evans. ‘The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia’, 2014.|The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia]],’ *Annales de démographie historique* 127, no. 1 (2014), p. 73. [^3]: Tanya Evans, ‘[[Evans. ‘The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia’, 2014.|The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia]],’ *Annales de démographie historique*, no. 1 (127) (2014), p. 73. [^4]: Charles Custer, ‘Chinese Birthday Customs for Newborns’, updated 12 January 2019, *ThoughtCo.*, https://www.thoughtco.com/chinese-birthday-customs-for-newborns-4080790. [^5]: Charles Custer, ‘Chinese Birthday Customs for Newborns’, updated 12 January 2019, *ThoughtCo.*, https://www.thoughtco.com/chinese-birthday-customs-for-newborns-4080790. [^6]: Li Na, ‘[[Li. ‘Family History in China at a Crossroads_ Family Narratives, Personal Memory, and Public History’, 2019.|Family History in China at a Crossroads: Family Narratives, Personal Memory, and Public History]]’. *Journal of Family History* 44, no. 4 (1 October 2019), p. 450. [^7]: Li Na, ‘[[Li. ‘Family History in China at a Crossroads_ Family Narratives, Personal Memory, and Public History’, 2019.|Family History in China at a Crossroads: Family Narratives, Personal Memory, and Public History]]’. *Journal of Family History* 44, no. 4 (1 October 2019), p. 449.