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Families are divided into several types according to social, economic, and local conditions. The traditional extended and nuclear families are the two most common types of families in Turkey. The traditional extended family, generally means that three generations live together: grandfather grandparents, adult sons and sons' their sons, their wives and their unmarried daughters. A married daughter becomes a member of her husband's family and lives there.
This type of family is becoming more and more rare today.
The nuclear family, parallel to industrialization and urbanization, replaces has replaced the traditional families family. The nuclear family consists of a husband, wife, and unmarried children and is more suitable to modern Turkish social life today.

Family relations are very closed close within the Turks.
They respect their elders and support each other in every way.
Fathers and mothers do support their children financially until they the children get married.
When the a child gets married, the financial support may continue, but it is expected that the new family could earn enough and manage their livings own households.
Children do care very much about their elders.
They take care of their elders and support them when they get old or sick, both financially and mentally spiritually.
This closed close relationship is a kind of boomerang revolving circle, elders supporting children when they are young, children supporting their elders when they the elders are old...


Turkish home life involves neighbours, and friends, and family.
Everyone is very intertwined, everyone knows what's going on with the children of each others children other, and with husbands, who is having the next baby, who is getting married, who just got circumcised, if you ordered a new mobile phone, and even what you cooked for dinner last night.
Turkish people are social and share everything.