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A. What constitutes a household in your concultures? Which members are expected to leave, and when?

B. What determines succession and inheritance?

C. What types of marriages and sexual relationships are required, encouraged, allowed, and prohibited?

D. What are the patterns of childcare? Which member of the household cares for the children in what ways?

E. What is the division of labor among gender and generational lines within the household?

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The family among the Midh are divided into two primary levels: The Clan, and the House. Members of a House all share a common dwelling and live together in a large building. This building will often be multipurpose, having different areas for the various trades practiced by the house members in addition to living areas. The larger Clan deals with the organization of all the houses together for mutual support.

Females always stay within the same House for life, but males are married out to a different clan when they come of age.

B

To understand this, first you must understand a fact about draconic biology in my conworld. Dragons in my conworld do not have children one at a time, but instead lay several eggs at once in a clutch. Among social dragons, several sisters will lay a collective clutch together. All born from a single collective clutch make up a Brood. Brothers and sisters from the same Brood are treated as a sort of package deal. Succession is not from Single Mother to Single Daughter but instead from Mother Brood to Daughter Brood.

Those who inherit positions of power within the clan or as the head of the House share such a position with their brood-sisters. A Midh's youngest brood has inheritance rights (ultimogeniture), due to a peculiar bit of reasoning. As they see it, parents get better at raising children over time, so they will do a better job with the broods that come later than those that come before. So the youngest brood will be the one in the best position to handle their inheritance responsibly.

C

As broods are treated as single packages, marriages among Midh are technically group marriages. All the males from one brood are married to all the females of another brood. In the case of an insufficient number of males, multiple broods of males can be married to a single brood of females, but a male brood can never be married to multiple females.

The husband-brood of a given sisterhood is normally that of one of the father's sister's brood. If that doesn't make any sense, lemme break it down:

Brood A grows to maturity and sends the males to Brood B. Brood A gets husbands from somewhere else and raises Brood C. Brood B raises Brood D. Brood C then sends their males to Brood D, and the cycle starts all over again.

Due to Midh biology there's no real requirement for anyone within the group marriage to stay strictly within the group. Social dragon females aren't capable of conceiving most of the time, and only do so in a synchronized fashion with their sisters so that all the eggs of a clutch are laid and hatched at once. However, it is absolutely paramount for husbands to conceive with their wives. Having a child outside the marriage is considered by Midh even worse than our society considers it to be, for the simple reason that it's impossible for this to happen accidentally. There's no excuse for it.

D

Although children are raised collectively, Midh do keep track of which chick belongs to which mother of the brood (In fact, the egg takes a distinct pattern, and the newly hatched distinct pheromones, specifically for this purpose). The direct mother has a more distanced relationship with the child, while the role of education and discipline is carried out by her sisters instead. This is not without good consequence though: Because a mother never has to discipline her own children, her role is limited to playing, cuddling, and all-around spoiling. The mother does all the fun parts while her sisters take care of the dirty work.

E

Males within the House do the menial, exhausting, and boring physical labors which need to be done, while females are restricted to childcare, the arts, and scholarship. Females do not start work until they are fully grown, while males join their fathers and uncles earlier in helping around the house with labor like cleaning and hunting.
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A. A household is an extended family composed of a monogamous couple and the younger spouse's relatives.
B. What determines succession and inheritance?

There is no hereditary succession in Nmimbåwinga society. Being a member of the household gives one right to all its resources, which are shared according to people's needs and worth. Couple's move into the younger spouses household.

C. What types of marriages and sexual relationships are required, encouraged, allowed, and prohibited?

The only marriages are those arranged by the community authorities; in addition to marriage, any postpubescent people can go to brothels ran by the state and stocked with slaves. Trips to brothels are usually limited to once every 16days but exceptions are made for hard work. Premaritial sexual relations are essentially free, but once one is married at age 16 one can be sent to reeducation through labor or even executed for having sex out of marriage or state-sanctioned brothels, regardless of the other partner's opinions on the matter, or for being accused of having sexual perversions.

D. What are the patterns of childcare? Which member of the household cares for the children in what ways?

All the adult members care for the children: The young and middle aged adults after work and relaxation and the elderly in any time where the younger adults work and the children are not in school; usually there is collective childcare and community based childcare with a rather loose nucleus around one's extended family for support.

E. What is the division of labor among gender and generational lines within the household?

There is no division of labor according to gender. People work as soon as they are school aged but young children only do simple tasks and elderly mostly do physically undemanding tasks.
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A: a household can contain a large quantity of generations simuntainesly but often only 2 or 3 are present in any given time. Typicly the children leave to gain their own place to live at at an age of 20-30 (As they live for centries this is considered early) but if a profession requires specific tools which exists within the house and the child takes up it from his or her parents then it is quite common they stay there all life.

B: Even split between all children unless otherwise specified

C: Male and female are the only that "Can" exist as they percieve no other sexuality or arrangement a sexuality or arrangement but a disorder

D: Both mother and father care for the child depending on which has it easiest, exception are early babyhood where the motherly milk is required.

E: No division between genders as no job is really considered more male or female with the exception of men tend to due to physical abilities do more physical work while women have tendency toward more carring jobs, but nothing is cut in stone and anything goes
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Couple's move into the younger spouses household.
Interesting rule. Any particular reason for this?
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A. What constitutes a household in your concultures? Which members are expected to leave, and when?
The only solid nucleus of an Ikik "househould" consists of a breastfeeding mother and child/children. These nuclei are resolved when the child learns to walk independently (after approximately one year), at which time breastfeeding is discontinued and the child is left to be taken care of by the community.

B. What determines succession and inheritance?
Since there are no formal hierarchies and no possession in Ikik society, there is neither succession nor inheritance.

C. What types of marriages and sexual relationships are required, encouraged, allowed, and prohibited?
There is no marriage among the Ikik. All sexual relationships that are mutual and consenting are allowed; sexual experimentation and frequent exchange of partners is encouraged.

D. What are the patterns of childcare? Which member of the household cares for the children in what ways?
All children are taken care of by all members of community. During the first year of life, however, mothers generally look after their own children a bit more than other people.

E. What is the division of labor among gender and generational lines within the household?
The Ikik are against all forms of division of labor, and even though most breastfeeding mothers do not go for longer gathering/hunting sessions, they are not prohibited from doing so if they wish to.
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Micamo wrote:
Couple's move into the younger spouses household.
Interesting rule. Any particular reason for this?
The logic behind this is that the younger spouse is less mature and needs familiarity while the older spouse is more able to deal with separation from the family; this is somewhat silly though, given that 16 year olds must be less than 1 year apart in age.
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A. What constitutes a household in your concultures? Which members are expected to leave, and when?
A household is a very broad term, often households will not only include the parents and their children; but often include extended family and in exceptional circumstances neighbors or friends. The children leave the household when they feel ready, find a mate, or are kicked out by the leader of the "household group."
B. What determines succession and inheritance? Depending on the tribe, Most of the sedentary tribes are Patrilineal but in the far north there is no gender inequality but varying on age and biasism. Makurungou parents will very often become biased towards one child, which gets the most if not all the inheritance. On the coast lines the tribes/groups are mainly Matrilineal.

C. What types of marriages and sexual relationships are required, encouraged, allowed, and prohibited?
The only type that is forbidden is that between parent and offspring, Incest between siblings is not encouraged but not unheard of either. On the coasts, Incest is sometimes encouraged for maintaining a "pure" blood to the family and to keep wealth in the family as well. Outside of marriage sexual relationships are very common and not prohibited or encouraged. Children born out of marriage enjoy the same rights as those born in one.

D. What are the pattens of childcare? Which member of the household cares for the children in what ways?
Children are raised communally in a household group. Both genders will often care for children in anyway that they can.
E. What is the division of labor among gender and generational lines within the household?
Physical work passes mainly to the middle-aged group, The children are encouraged to pick a path early on and study it instead of helping parents on the coasts, On the plains all members are required for working, In the North, men do hunting as women fish. As kids help with gathering or other jobs.
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A. What constitutes a household in your concultures? Which members are expected to leave, and when?
a household is formed with one elder (usually someone who had enough children to need a new house for their family) and all their descendants. People aren't usually expected to leave at all, at least not definitively, but the family can split up if there are two many people living there, as mentioned before (too many being more than 15. Big houses.)
Most of the time, only people who are related by blood live together. Lovers share the nights between one house and the other, if need be, but they don't live together (it's made easier by the fact that your lover will virtually always be someone from the same village as you)

B. What determines succession and inheritance?
Tyoe don't really believe in personal possessions. Most things just stay within the family until they can no longer be used or until the family has to split, in which case things are usually divided equally between those who leave and those who stay.
That's for utilitarian objects. For jewels and anything made for pleasure rather than work, you just try to give them away while you're still alive, and you give them to whoever you like best/ could use it. It doesn't have to be someone in your family, but it's usually someone from your village or that of your partner.

C. What types of marriages and sexual relationships are required, encouraged, allowed, and prohibited?
marriage as such doesn't exist among the tyoe. Soon after your birth, the village elders' will meet some other village's elders and they will chose a partner for you, someone who will be the other parent of your children. You are expected to meet that partner about 10 times in your life so that you may have children, but you're not expected to live with them all the time. A few weeks each time is plenty enough. Having a romantic relationship with your partner is considered rather odd.
Love is still a reality for the tyoe. But you will usually fall in love and, if you feel like it, have sex, with someone of your own village. Love within one's family is perfectly okay, and only your father/mother, grand-parents and the like are off-limits. Uncles/aunts, cousins, niece/nephew, brother/sister are okay. As female tyoe can know if they are fertile at a given moment more easily than humans, unwanted pregnancy are extremely rare (and so having a child with your lover rather than your partner is frowned upon and, in some regions, can lead to your being exiled. You don't mess with those things). Spending your whole life with a single lover is also considered rather odd, and you will be encouraged to change from time to time, even if you still go back with your favourite lover afterwards. Monogamy is so dreadfully human.
Other than that, there is a whole part of the tyoe population that is considered outcast, for various reasons. They aren't allowed to have children (many of them are outcast because they can't have them anyway), and while the occasional casual sex with them is tolerated, falling in love with them is considered very stupid and your family will do everything to prevent such a relation.

D. What are the patterns of childcare? Which member of the household cares for the children in what ways?
Children are cared for by the whole family, more specifically by anyone who isn't doing anything else at that moment. Mostly, they are raised by older people (who can no longer work) and teenagers/older kids who can't work yet. It is considered these are the people who know the rules of living together best: old people because they've been practising them for so long, older children because they have just learned them and haven't had time to forget them yet.
Also, fun fact about children: the father is usually the one going to the mother's village, and he will take the kid back to his own village with him, because the mother already had to bear the child for months which was a lot of work, really. (exceptions may be made if there are many kids in the father's house, or few in the mother's, but usually that's how it is)

E. What is the division of labor among gender and generational lines within the household?
Tyoe don't differentiate gender (they look very, very similar, so some people don't even know if they're male or female until the time comes to have kids) so no division in that respect.
Young children have to learn how to be a good tyoe and how to behave around others.
When they're 5, they will start explained younger kids how to behave while still learning the subtleties themselves
Around 13, they are considered teenagers. They still need to teacher other kids, but they will also start working in one trade or another. Depending on what they're learning it will take more or less time.
At 17, tyoe are working full time in most cases (well, sort of. They have lots of free time) and they also start having children, but beside giving birth to them they don't take much care of them.
At 40, you are considered old enough to stop working and to take care of the children full time. (death usually occurs between 40 and 50. 60 is considered very old. Some tyoe have reached 70, even 80, but they are considered very exceptional)
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Tagath wrote:Tyoe (non-humans)
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At 40, you are considered old enough to stop working and to take care of the children full time. (death usually occurs between 40 and 50. 60 is considered very old. Some tyoe have reached 70, even 80, but they are considered very exceptional)
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