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Depending on his findings on Australian natives, well-known functionalist anthropologist Malinowski claimed that both the relationship of marriage and the institution of the family should be universal because these two fulfill a universal human need, the nutritional and nurturing needs of the offspring by the adults. According to Malinowski, in order to know which adults are responsible for children, families should have a commonplace assigned for the works related to child rearing. For Malinowski, the child rearing function is the reason of existence of the family.