The family : an ethnographical and historical outline with descriptive notes, planned as a text-book for the use of college lecturers and of directors of home-reading clubs / by Elsie Crews Parsons.

  • Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
Date:
1906
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    Parental Power 6i support them when invalid or aged,^ or the liability to be enslaved by their creditors or to be punished for their misdeeds, may follow in part from the idea of parental ownership, yet such obligations and liabili- Mutual liability for ties may also be part of the general solidarity of pan^y'^resuitVf''' kinship characteristic of ethnic society. Similar solidarity motives or combinations of motives enter into the responsibility which frequently falls upon parents also for the fines, debts, etc., of offspring. This may be also a corollary of parental ownership merely, offspring who do not control their own product not having the means to be personally liable in such cases. Under well developed ethnic organisation guar- Ethnic organisation dianship (protection and control) of offspring may be guardianship shared with the parent by a circle of kinsfolk, or it may be with the parent as the head of the kinsfolk group or it may be wholly in the hands of the kinsfolk, or head of the kinsfolk. A fuller consideration of these facts we shall postpone to the discussion of types of compound family. Frequently, as we have already seen in the case of Parental ownership infanticide and as we shall soon see in customs of dis- restricted in case of sons posai in marriage, parental ownership is much more restricted in the case of sons than of daughters. The right to kill later in life or to sell may, for example, apply only to daughters. The consideration of parental control as an educa¬ tional method, in distinction to parental control as the direct outcome of parental ownership, we shall ^ The obligation to support a widowed mother or unmarried sister may, in groups where the chattel character of women is pronounced, be merely a corollary of the inheritance by the son of his deceased father's proprietary con¬ trol over the women of the family. У