Family Life

In Libya, kinship is determined patrilineally, and male blood relationships form the foundation of the home. A father, his wife, his single and married sons, together with their spouses and kids, his unmarried daughters, and sometimes other family members, like a widowed or divorced mother or sister, make up a normal household. Each son should start his own family after the death of the father to restart the cycle. Since families are so important, it is anticipated that everyone will get married when they are of legal age. Only married men and frequently only fathers are typically granted adult status.

Family patriarchs were the absolute rulers of their extended families in old North African civilization, and in Libya, the institution seems to have persisted a little bit longer than in other parts of the region. The family is the foundation of society, according to the revolutionary leadership, despite the upheavals that the 1969 revolution brought about in urban and rural society.