Also called virilocal residence: a post-marital residence pattern in which a newly married couple lives with or near the household of the husband's parents, the single most common residence pattern documented across human cultures.
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Descent RuleSourced to the subject's own accountA residence rule rather than a lineage rule proper: newlyweds settle with or near the husband's father's household, and families living patrilocally generally assume joint ownership of the household's domestic resources under a senior member's management. 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountDocumented worldwide as the single most common post-marital residence pattern, found in roughly seventy percent of ethnographically studied cultures, rather than confined to one region. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
Held Differently
The direct structural counterpart of patrilocal residence, substituting the wife's kin group for the husband's.
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1. Wikipedia: Patrilocal Residence
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a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents
1. Wikipedia: Patrilocal Residence
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Families living in a patrilocal residence generally assume joint ownership of domestic sources.
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The practice has been found in around 70 percent of the world's modern human cultures
1. Wikipedia: Patrilocal Residence
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In social anthropology, patrilocal residence or patrilocality, also known as virilocal residence or virilocality, are terms referring to the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents.
Wikipedia: Matrilocal Residence
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