An individual's kindred consists of all of the people who are related to him or her through consanguinal ties and possibly affinal ones as well. That is, it includes one's biological relatives and sometimes spouse and in-laws. Kinship is based on marriage, descent , and, occasionally, fictive relationships as well. This man is missing due to death, divorce, abandonment, or no marriage having taken place. In such families, the mother raises her children more or less alone and subsequently has the major role in their socialization.
Matrilineages usually consist of a number of related nuclear families descended from the same woman.
With this pattern, people are related if they can trace descent through females to the same female ancestor. Both males and females inherit membership in a matrilineal family line, but only females can pass it on to their descendents. Moieties have reciprocal privileges and obligations with each other, such as providing marriage partners and assisting at funerals. The founding moiety ancestor is often so genealogically remote that he or she is now mythical. Societies with moieties usually consist of a few thousand people or less.