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Family types in different parts of the World

Some definitions: George Murdock's definition (over 50 ago) - "The family is a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults." Popenoe's  definition – “the minimum number constituting a family is one adult and one dependent person, the parents do not have to be of both sexes, and the couple does not have to be married. The functions of the family are procreation and socialization of children, sexual regulation, economic cooperation, and provision of care, affection and companionship.” Nuclear family: wife/mother + husband/father + their children. The one-parent family: one parent (divorced/unmarried parent) + children. Extended familiy : at least three generations: the grandparents, the wife/mother, husband/father, chil

Childhood cartoons

I'm sure we all watched cartoons when we were kids. When I was little I loved to watch them. Every day I waited for 7pm, when were the best cartoons on television. Below are my favorites, to which I have sentiment and I still like to watch them. The Smurfs is about colony of small blue creatures that live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. There are more than one hundred Smurfs, whose names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics, e.g. "Jokey Smurf", who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow smurfs, "Clumsy Smurf", who has a habit of creating havoc unintentionally, and "Smurfette"—the first female Smurf. Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears is about Gummi Bears - a fictional group of bears who have a long and rich history, and are relatively unknown to the humans of the world who believe that they are legends and fairy tales. The Gummi-Glen Gummis (Gruffi, Zummi, Grammi, Tummi, Sunni, Cubbi, August) are

Self-development

Back in the days, when I've been graduating from primary school and i was becoming a student of high school, I was constantly hearing about how unreal and impossible is to look like celebrities from tv spots or billboards. But then i met people, people who have shown me that the truth is totally different, all these ancient statues of warriors are not just a figment of imagination, there were people who actually had those muscles shaped so well. Of course our goal shouldn't be to look like one of these golden champions, but to be more agile and stronger than day before and believe me it is not that hard as you probably think, you just need a bit of the motivation. For me the hardest part was to begin, after some time of exercises i realised that I don't think about this as of the harsh duty but a pleasure. Stories about endorphin are real, it gives you an extra boost during the day. Of course if it happens to you that you work out once a week the muscle sores will ki

TOP 9: the most incredible means of transport!

Around the world , There are a lot of vehicles and ways how to travel from place to place. The most popular in our country are, naturally, bicycles, motorcycles , cars, buses, trams, trains , planes ... I think, that we can find these means of transport in the majority countries of the world .   But… Everyone know, there are places where people travel in different ways. How? I am going to present THE MOST INCREDIBLE MEANS OF TRANSPORT! Let’s get started: 1.     Totora Boat – PERU On the lake Titicaca, in the Andes 3812-3820 m. a.s.l ., in Peru, people uses natural materials to create way how to cross the river . They use totra – a kind of reed, to build an original boat, which are very durable. Local residents adorn them with shapes of imaginary dragons and animals . 2.      Chickenbus   - GUATEMALA This transport is interesting for several reasons . They are old American and Canadian buses but painted with pleasure of their owners. So, mostly,