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Transformation of African and Indian Family Traditions in the Southern Caribbean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

John Stuart MacDonald  and
Leatrice D. MacDonald
John Stuart MacDonald
Affiliation:
Chelsea College and Institute of Latin American Studies
Leatrice D. MacDonald
Affiliation:
University of London
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Around the Caribbean, it is commonly believed that slavery and the plantation system have been responsible for the prevalence of short-term consensual unions, matrifocal households and children out of wedlock who grow up without the authority and support of a father or definite father- surrogate. This explanation is accepted as often by social scientists as by public opinion. Of course, this is the obverse of the line of Western social thought maintaining that small holdings and independent family farming are the basis of strong patrifocal households, exclusive life-long marriages and paternal responsibility for children.

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Rural Social Structures
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 171 - 198
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1973

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