ily farm and enter wage labor. Sons are able to control their salaries and gain independence from their fathers who used to control the family budget. The newly married couple usually resides in the groom's parents household; most couples spend fifteen years in the extended family and then form a nuclear family for a brief time until their sons marry. Several sons may marry and be living with their parents at the same time; eventually one son will be chosen to stay in the family house with his elderly parents (Brink 133-136).
Rural Egypt is being influenced by wage labor, modern education, exposure to Western lifestyles in the mass media, and rises in the standard of living. When the family's income is derived from agriculture, a patrilocal family structure is found. The old father controls all the income (gives it to the wife to buy food) and the older couple has all the family power due to the father's ownership of the means of protection. The father
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