![]() Strong ties to some members may rest on mutual dependence. Within these different systems, some kin roles are a greater locus of expectation and bonding than others. ![]() Not only the changing demographics of birth, death, marriage and migration, but customary arrangements of joint, stem, nuclear and other family organisations, will mean that more or less extensive sets of kin are available to become potential loci of strong ties. There are also structural sources of variation inhering in different family systems. Some or all of these factors may be relevant in a given case. The strength of ties, in other words, has a number of dimensions, both moral and behavioural. ![]() ![]() What is this likely to entail? Most people will affirm as strong family values those that stress affective and moral bonds, flows of material support, proximity (which may or may not entail co-residence) and regularity of contact across the life course. As a starting point, we can take the seemingly unexceptionable proposition that the ‘strength’ of ties is defined by prevailing social norms: strong ties exist in societies in which positive intra-family relations are highly valued. The images evoked by the phrase ‘strong family ties’ are various, and will be treated in this paper as an open question needing more, and more nuanced, empirical study.
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