Family as a beginning

It is important to the author to show in her concise and descriptive comparison how different family forms affect the people living in them. In doing so, she illustrates what the models examined mean in terms of burdens or opportunities, especially for women, the well-being of children, and the relationship between the sexes and generations. The focus is on the nuclear family, which is typical for our latitudes and in which the majority of people live, and the traditional matriarchal Mosuo extended family led by a matriarch. The author presents the various economic systems and asks about the social and spiritual values that form the basis of the structures examined. With the matriarchal filmmaker Uschi Madeisky and her mother, the labyrinth artist Li Shalima, she discusses the question of whether alternati.