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Portuguese term or phrase:
família de procriação
English translation:
foster family
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Paul Dixon
May 9, 2007 16:12
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For me, and also for Aurélio, "procriar" is "to breed", so the "família de procriação" would be the birth family. However, from the context it seems more like a foster family, especially as the percentage of people living with parents is entered separately.
My view is that it could either be a typo for "família de criação" (foster family), or possibly an alternative form used only in Portugal - the original text is PT-PT.
The phrase reads:
Quanto ao tipo de Agregado Familiar, a maior parte dos indivíduos (62%) coabita com ambos os pais, 21% vive com a *família de procriação*, 12% vivia sozinho e 5% com um dos progenitores e/ou avós e/ou irmãos.
Any suggestions?
My view is that it could either be a typo for "família de criação" (foster family), or possibly an alternative form used only in Portugal - the original text is PT-PT.
The phrase reads:
Quanto ao tipo de Agregado Familiar, a maior parte dos indivíduos (62%) coabita com ambos os pais, 21% vive com a *família de procriação*, 12% vivia sozinho e 5% com um dos progenitores e/ou avós e/ou irmãos.
Any suggestions?
Proposed translations
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| 4 +1 | foster family |
Amy Duncan (X)
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| 3 +1 | procreation family |
cristina estanislau
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| 4 | procreation family (see below) |
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foster family
Hi Paul, I have never heard the term "procreation family" in English. I think what they're getting at here is some family other than the parents, and foster family, IMHO, comes closest to that in English
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Comment: "Thanks everyone. I preferred this answer as it is simpler for laypeople to understand."
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cristina estanislau
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procreation family
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http://www.ces.uc.pt/lab2004/pdfs/RosalinaCosta.pdf
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79721998000300011
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procreation family (see below)
This is in support of Cristina but the Agree function doesn't give me enough space to explain. Here are 2 quotes from her references:
"Uma das mudanças mais visíveis na vida dos indivíduos tem precisamente que ver com a facto de, à medida que atingem a idade adulta, estes diexam, na maior parte dos casos, a sua familía de orientação para formarem uma nova família a que se chama usualmente família de procriação."
"Moragas (1997) propõe os conceitos de família de procriação e família de orientação. Família de orientação é a família em que se nasce. Quando os filhos casam, dão origem à própria família de procriação, cujos laços são mais consistentes, pois nela ocorre a maior parte da experiência familiar."
From these , it is quite clear that "família de procriação" is the family you form when you marry (if you do) and have children. I found relatively few references to "procreation family" but they are all serious anthropology papers. Here's one.
"Everyone has two types of family, the orientation family which is the family in which you are born to and the procreation family which is the family in which you create. "
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:dwb7vGncKMMJ:uhaweb.hartf...
I don't know if there is a better term that "procreation family" but I'd support Cristina's version in the absence of anything more authoritative. If you agree with this analysis, please award the points to her, not me.
"Uma das mudanças mais visíveis na vida dos indivíduos tem precisamente que ver com a facto de, à medida que atingem a idade adulta, estes diexam, na maior parte dos casos, a sua familía de orientação para formarem uma nova família a que se chama usualmente família de procriação."
"Moragas (1997) propõe os conceitos de família de procriação e família de orientação. Família de orientação é a família em que se nasce. Quando os filhos casam, dão origem à própria família de procriação, cujos laços são mais consistentes, pois nela ocorre a maior parte da experiência familiar."
From these , it is quite clear that "família de procriação" is the family you form when you marry (if you do) and have children. I found relatively few references to "procreation family" but they are all serious anthropology papers. Here's one.
"Everyone has two types of family, the orientation family which is the family in which you are born to and the procreation family which is the family in which you create. "
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:dwb7vGncKMMJ:uhaweb.hartf...
I don't know if there is a better term that "procreation family" but I'd support Cristina's version in the absence of anything more authoritative. If you agree with this analysis, please award the points to her, not me.
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