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matrifocal, a. Sociol.|ˈmætrɪfəʊkəl|
[f. matri- + focal a.]
Applied to a family in which the mother is left with the responsibility for and authority over the household; mother-centred. Hence matrifoˈcality, the condition of a family which depends on the mother.
1952Internat. Afr. Inst. Memorandum xxvi. 12 These matrifocal cells of the compound family. 1956R. T. Smith Negro Family Brit. Guiana ix. 221 We maintain that the matri-focal system of domestic relations..can be regarded as the obverse of the marginal nature of the husband–father rôle. 1969O. Lewis in D. P. Moynihan On Understanding Poverty vii. 198 For example, matrifocality, a high incidence of consensual unions, and a high percentage of households headed by women, which have been thought to be distinctive characteristics of Caribbean family organization or of Negro family life in the United States, turn out to be traits of the culture of poverty. 1969J. & S. Baratz in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out (1972) 11 This assumption left social scientists with no other alternative than to wrongly describe..the matrifocal family unit so prevalent in lower-class black society as ‘evidence of male emasculation’. |