A Family Is...
George Peter Murdoch was an anthropologist who, in 1949, studied 250 different societies across the world to find the common features for a definition of family. This is his conclusive definition of family:
"A family is a social group who shares a common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. It includes people of both sexes, at least two, who have a socially acceptable sexual relationship and one or more children, their own or adopted."
21. Does the definition apply to the four examples above? Decide in pairs and explain why or why not, using the expressions below.
| Giving opinions | Giving reasons for opinions |
|---|---|
| - I think / believe / feel ... | - ... because ... |
| - Personally, I think / believe / feel ... | - ... since ... |
| - In my opinion / view ... | - The main reason I think that is because ... |
| - It seems to me that ... | - One of the reasons I think that is because ... |
| - I'm convinced that ... | - According to Murdock / Murdock's theory, ... |
| - From my point of view, ... | |
| - As I see it, ... | |
| - My opinion / view is that ... |