married, a women is expected to "cleave to her husband" even if it is at the expense of maintaining harmonious relationships with kin, the Arab notion is different. In Arab society in general and Kuwaiti society in particular, the view of priority in relationships is one in which filial relationships are viewed as more important than marital relationships.
The third element related to the traditional Arab view of family relates to gender. This element derives from the Arab view of gender in which worldly authority is to be invested in the male rather than the female. This element results in the view that male children are to be given more freedom than female children.
The final element associated with the traditional view of family in Arab culture concerns marriage. Again differing from the western view in which marriages are the result of mutual selection and consent, the Arab view holds that parents have a right to arrange marriages for children of both sexes. Thus, while males are given more authority and freedom than
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