When a baby is born, its family gives it an important gift----its first name. There are many reasons why parents give their children certain names. You may be named after one of your parents, or...
Family names
Is your last name---your family name---Smith? Then, long ago, you had an ancestor who made things out of metal. Is your family name Fields? Then, long ago, you had an ancestor who lived near fields....
A death in the family
United States In most countries, people who have died are buried in the ground with a special ceremony. It's a sad time when someone in the family dies. Everywhere in the world there are...
Wedding ways
One of the most important events in the life of a young man and woman is when they get married. People in different parts of the world have many different ways of getting married. Some weddings are...
Growing up
The house is gaily decorated. The guests are arriving. It is the day of samarttiya kalyanam. This is the day when a Tamil girl becomes a woman---at about the age of 13. Before the ceremony, the girl...
A new baby in the family
The arrival of a baby is a happy, busy time for a family. Many things have to be clone for the new little one. In most parts of the world, there are special ceremonies connected with the birth of a...
The biggest family of all
> An Ashanti family has a meal in the mother's house. The father lives > in another house. How would you like to have many mothers, many fathers, and lots of brothers and sisters? Impossible? Not...
Four parents to a family
> When grandparents, parents, and children live together, they do most > things together, too. "Over the river and through the woods, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way to carry...
Many families – one house
In most villages around the world, you'll find lots of houses. But on the island of Borneo, a Dyak village may have only one house! That's because the house is a village all by itself! A Dyak house,...
Part-time families
Israel This Israeli family celebrates a birthday. They live on a big farm called a kibbutz. On a kibbutz in Israel, parents and children do not live together. The parents stay in a house for...
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