The traditional family, where two or three
generations live, produce and consumpt together.
Only the girls leave their home when they get married.
This type of family is typical of the rural areas
and the poor districts in the cities, but their
number is decreasing.
Mother
and her three children - Western Anatolia
Young
mother - Aegean Region
Kurdish
woman with her baby
- Eastern Anatolia
The
nuclear family, developing with industrialization
and urbanization, replaces the traditional family.
It only regroups a husband a wife, and their unmarried
children, which is more suitable to modern social
life.. Each member plays a role and has responsabilities.
In both cases, whatever the economic or social conditions,
the relations are based upon respect of the youngest
towards the elders.
A
modern Turkish family posing for a photograph
on the occasion of the son's circumcision
in the 1950s
and in the 1960s at the daughter's wedding
(my step family)
