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Murdock, a functionalist anthropologist, examined 250 societies in a wide range including both hunting and gathering societies and industrial societies. He concluded that a form of family exists in every society, thus the family is a universal social institution. For Murdock, the family is “a social group characterized by common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes, at least of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults”. In other words, according to Murdock, the family is a group, whose members share their resources, have sexual relationship and are biologically reproductive.