Traditionally, in some areas of the former yugoslavia, several nuclear families were embedded in an extended family household called a zadruga. among the nayar in southern india, it was typical for people to live in matrilineal extended family compounds called tarawads. descriptions of these two culturally specific cases highlight how a. children who grow up in stable kin groups are better off than those who don't. b. extended family households are an adaptive strategy to dealing with extreme poverty. c. nuclear families are extremely rare in terms of living arrangements. d. the nuclear family is the only stable kin group arrangement. e. there are many alternatives to the nuclear family.