Editing Extended family (section)

==Description==
In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the immediate family. These families include, in one household or close proximity, relatives in addition to an immediate family.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eXnaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA231 Webster's New World Dictionary], p. 231 (2013)</ref> An example would be an elderly parent who moves in with his or her children due to old age. In modern Western cultures dominated by [[immediate family]] constructs, the term has come to be used generically to refer to grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, whether they live together within the same household or not.<ref>Andersen, Margaret L and Taylor, Howard Francis (2007). The extended family may live together for many reasons, such as to help raise children, support for an ill relative, or help with financial problems. Sociology: Understanding a diverse society. p. 396 {{ISBN|0-495-00742-0}}.</ref> However, it may also refer to a family unit in which several generations live together within a single household. In some cultures, the term is used synonymously with [[consanguineous family]].

A stem family is a kind of extended family, first discussed by [[Frédéric Le Play]].  Parents will live with one child and his/her spouse, as well as the children of both, while other children will leave the house or remain in it, unmarried. The stem family is sometimes associated with inegalitarian inheritance practices, as in [[Japan]] and [[Korea]], but the term has also been used in some contexts to describe a family type where parents live with a married child and his or her spouse and children, but the transfer of land and moveable property is more or less egalitarian, as in the case of traditional [[Romania]],<ref>Gender and Well-Being  Interactions between Work, Family and Public Policies  COST ACTION A 34  Second Symposium:  The Transmission of Well-Being: Marriage Strategies  and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th Centuries)  25th -28th April 2007  University of Minho  Guimarães-Portugal http://www.ub.edu/tig/GWBNet/MinhoPapers/Constanta%20Ghitulescu.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025232/http://www.ub.edu/tig/GWBNet/MinhoPapers/Constanta%20Ghitulescu.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}</ref> northeastern [[Thailand]]<ref name="KertzerFricke1997">{{cite book|author1=David I. Kertzer|author2=Thomas Earl Fricke|title=Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTk-o1tn6CwC&pg=PA62|date=15 July 1997|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-43195-6|pages=62–}}</ref> or [[Mesoamerican]] indigenous peoples.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=3774080|title=Residence Rules and Ultimogeniture in Tlaxcala and Mesoamerica|first=David Luke|last=Robichaux|date=1 January 1997|journal=Ethnology|volume=36|issue=2|pages=149–171|doi=10.2307/3774080}}</ref> In these cases, the child who cares for the parents usually receives the house in addition to his or her own share of land and moveable property.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}