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An often overlooked institution, the family
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Fairly easy to describe for Ksreskézo; the Ksreskézaians themselves lived in great Houses which were a fairly conservative stem structure. Individuals could always leave and start new Houses, but the aristocratic ones were ancient. (It's one of their more prominent Klingon features... oh god I reinvented Klingons.)

The Lilitai, on the other hand, were accustomed to very small families, usually just of mother and one daughter. Back on Ksreskézo, any other slaves in the household would help raise the child. After they obtained their freedom, a nuclear structure started to appear with the mother's current or past partner performing as a co-parent or nanny. (Often, but not always, they were actual biological "fathers" of the child as well.) Since children could be born centuries apart, it would be unusual for any daughter but the first to expect much inheritance from her mother, since the two would have more time to grow closer together.