Natolocal Residence Natolocal Residence Natolocal residence is structured by a rule that, upon marriage, both the husband and wife continue to reside with their families of origin.
Children usually reside with the mother and remain in their natal household throughout their lives.
In the next generation A's children continue reside with their mother, and B's children stay in his wife's household. The basic pattern is repeated in the next generation. The main outcome of the natolocal rule is that both males and females of the same lineage continue to reside in a common residential unit. This residential pattern is fairly uncommon and is almost always found in matrilineal societies, a circumstance that allows children to continue to reside with their mother and remain in a lineage residence at the same time. The exclusion of husband's and wive's from each other's household imposes obvious problems for conceiving and raising a family.