Engels’ Family Thought Research

In the history of philosophy, the of family thought was never been terminated. Morgan’s 《Ancient Society》 summarizes the five sequence to each other family forms in ancient society: Blood marriage system family、Partnership marriage system family、Spouse marriage system family、Father family system in power、Specialized spouse’s family system, and systematic exposition of the various family forms of production, composition and characteristics, thus records the development process of the human family’s marriage form. Marx do a very detailed study notes on the 《ancient society》, written 《Morgan’s (Ancient Society> abstract》at last. Marx agreed on some of Morgan’s research.and rational transformation of Morgan’s ideas.intend to write a book on primitive society, however, this desire has not been realized, Marx passed away. Engels carried out the dying wishes of Marx, wrote the book 《Der Ursprung der Familie,des Privateigentums und des Staats》.In this book.Engels made a partition of family forms:Consanguinity family、Punaluya family、Spouse family、Monogamous family.Engels think that family have the nature of consanguinity、the nature of the society and the nature of history, the development of changes in family patterns, at the fundamental.is with the development of society and development. The production of the material goods and the production of the people pushing forward development of human society continually.and developments and changes in society as a whole will inevitably lead to the development of changes in family patterns. Continuous development and changes of human society to this day,at our’s day and age. we have our own typical family patterns, such as "421" families、DINK families、Empty nesters families.and so on. These family patterns to a certain extent.is the unique family pattern in the context,which is by the development of social production and technological development,at the same time these family patterns has its own features and drawbacks, this will plays a restrictive role in the development of social inevitably. At present. China has vigorously advocated building a harmonious society, the family is the smallest cells of society, build a harmonious family is an important part of building a harmonious society, therefore building a harmonious family imperative.