As to matrifocal societies, I would settle for an equifocal one. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Politics | Mind on Fire] Reference
So then I needed to study matrifocal societies to see how they worked. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Readers Don’t See «] Reference
They remained, for example, unflaggingly matrilineal and matrifocal into recent eras. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Or back to a time in history where people lived in peace with nature: back to matrifocal times. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Kim Antieau] Reference
For instance, it's too simplistic to say that Indo-European speakers were all patriarchal warriors and native Europeans were all matrifocal pacifists. From Wordnik.com. ["Mid Indo-European", Semitic and Neolithic numerals] Reference
21Proto-Ruvu societies were matrilineal and matrifocal. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
The society is matrilineal, matrilocal and perhaps matrifocal. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury Rising 鳯女] Reference
The Afro-Trini family has always been predominantly single-parent and matrifocal. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
For 30,000 years we had a matrifocal society that had great reverence for life in all its forms. From Wordnik.com. [art for housewives] Reference
Occidental societies tend to do the opposite), and they were matrilocal and matrifocal societies. ". From Wordnik.com. [Review: The Oldest Europeans] Reference
She wishes to demonstrate that models such as the nuclear and matrifocal family ” while adequate for the middle class ” are not applicable to those she has observed. From Wordnik.com. [Short Reviews] Reference
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