论家庭的本质及其历史演进

The Essence of the Family and its Historical Evolution

家庭是一个动态的概念,是人类最基本、最重要的社会组织,其本质的深刻性体现在五个方面:即家庭是以婚姻和血缘为纽带的社会组织形式,是最基本的生活单位,是最基本的社会组织形式,是受特定道德和法律约束的生活共同体,是社会生活有机体的细胞。它随着社会生产力的发展而发展,经历了由群婚制、对偶婚制到文明时代的专偶婚制(一夫一妻制)家庭的历史演进过程,深入探讨家庭这一历史演进过程,对我国当代的家庭建设具有重要启示。

The family is a dynamic concept, which is the most basic and important human social organization. The profundity of its essence lies in five aspects, namely, the family is a form of social organization related by blood or marriage, the most basic unit of life, the most basic form of social organization, a community of life restrained by a particular morality and law and the organism’s cells of society. The family develops along with the development of productive forces, and it has experienced a historical evolution process from group marriage to the dual system of marriage, and finally to individual marriage system （ monogamy） in the civilization era. An in-depth discussion of this historical evolution process has important enlightenment for the current family development of our contry.