ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the structure and dynamics of uxoricentric family life. The nuclear family has been argued in several quarters that this configuration is firmly grounded in a set of invariant natural facts. Because the family is composed of a mutually reinforcing set of biological tendencies and integrative roles, it performs a set of sociological functions that are indispensable for society's continued existence. The young couple's attempt to establish an autonomous household is threatened, if not doomed, from the start. The requisite economic and emotional security needed to establish a new conjugal unit, free from the dependencies of premarital life, is seldom granted. The nature and state of the mother-daughter dyad is given a new structural inflection with the emergence of the gynecocratic core as the main reproductive unit of uxoricentric culture. The mother-daughter relationship and its integration is the structural linchpin of the orderly replacement of the family's culture from one generation to the next.
