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(of a society, culture, etc.) based on the mother as the head of the family or household.
‘Shifting from the matrifocal, he also recognizes the gift of courage and acuity from his grandfather, and he mentions his debt to his intellectual father.’
‘They are generally seen as a matrifocal society (where women are central to family life).’
‘Their social organisation is loosely bilateral with a matrifocal bias.’
‘This matrifocal arrangement placed women as heads of the households.’
‘In cases of extramarital unions, consensual unions, divorce, death, and abandonment, matrifocal households are common.’
‘Alternative models of family, including a matrifocal family or a single-parent household, are rendered pathological.’
‘In the matrifocal household type, kinship rules stress matrilinear descent.’
‘These women are the closest equivalent it has to matrifocal heads of households.’
‘Gorillas are strongly patrifocal, Chimpanzees are matrifocal, and Bonobos seem to enjoy a sort of free-love, hippy-communal existence.’
‘In the past, villages were endogamous, somewhat matrifocal units.’
‘Journeying to Malta with other women provides an opportunity to encounter these sacred mysteries and reconnect with our matrifocal roots.’
‘Like many African families, these Creole families are matrifocal, centering on the mother's lineage, with strong traditions of women working outside of the home.’
‘No where in Mexico - or anywhere else in Latin America - has a matrifocal culture like this come into being.’
‘These matrifocal tendencies indicated a ‘low level’ of culture, their persistence a decadent survival from the past.’
‘There is a long matrifocal history of single female-headed households, which since 1975 have been heavily subsidized through government family allowance funds.’
‘The writings in the last half of the century have provided a consistent matrifocal perspective.’
‘The matrifocal, multigeneration family is typical.’
‘For others, Vietnam's pantheon of goddesses represents particularly telling evidence of the nation's ancient roots in a matrifocal culture.’
‘Latin American families which are often extended and matrifocal often appear in the media or popular literature as being ‘deviant’ or ‘in crisis.’’
‘Children are cared for within the domestic unit of family, which tends to be matrifocal.’