The Extended Family System in Igbo Culture : A Social Security System

Reuben Kezie Eneze

ISBN 10: 173355050X / ISBN 13: 9781733550505

Published by Owl's Nest Publishers, LLC Jan 2019, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Extended Family System in Igbo Culture : A Social Security System
• Publisher: Owl's Nest Publishers, LLC Jan 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 173355050X
• ISBN 13: 9781733550505
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

The author gives a brief insight into the family formation and social protection of the Igbo people. He maintains that the Igbo family system was instituted several centuries B.C., by Igbo ancestors as a social security system; and was charged with the social obligation to establish cultural measures that would among other things: a) Supervise and protect the marriage institution through inbuilt fundamental traditional safeguards to avoid marriage breakups and the consequent exposure of children to parental abuses.b) Provide through the marriage institution a legitimate and socially secure home for every child in his/her father’s home where adequate parental upbringing would be assured.c) Ensure that through the marriage institution there was an alternative but temporal home in the maternal ancestral family for every person in case of a serious social misunderstanding, dispute or social disturbance in his/her paternal family.d) Provide humanitarian assistance through family connections to all members of the extended family faced with the problems of bereavement, orphanhood, poverty, disability, illness, old age or retirement.e) Provide physical protection and economic assistance to all through community service.The author made brief comments on the ethnic orientation and civilization of the Igbo people of Southern Nigeria.