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Other Family Members: Paternal Pozver.—The patriarchal organization of the Roman family gave its head an unrestricted power (patria potestas) over all other family members members of the family, a power of life and death. Ordinarily no member of the family could have property of his own; all acquisitions made by family members belonged to the father. Remedies against cruelty or arbitrariness of the father were a family council, which he consulted before taking a drastic measure against a person under his power, an official blame by the censors, and later a complaint with the competent authority.
This is typical of the many practical difficulties some families face. You cannot, of course, explore the family circumstances in detail in an open meeting, but you do need to suggest ways in which the problem can begin to be tackled. A few well-placed questions should enable you to put forward some useful strategies. It may be impossible to hear children read as often as a smaller family could manage, but other family members members of the family might be recruited to help - big brother family members or sister, grandparents, even a neighbour.
The 25 or more genera of living and extinct horses constituting the family Equidae are usually grouped into three subfamilies: the Hyra-cother family membersiinae, the horses of the early Tertiary period; the Anchitheriinae, the browsing horses of the mid-Tertiary; and the Equinae, the one-toed grazing horses of the late Tertiary, Pleistocene, and present. Another family members classification of the Equidae includes about the same number of genera but emphasizes traits that may be traced from the most recent members of the various lines back through earlier members to their apparent origin. This results in a different subfamily arrangement, but it does not significantly alter the nature of the history of the family. |
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