Anthropologist bronislaw malinowski (1913) examined the family structure of nontraditional cultures and settled a long-standing debate when he concluded that

He found that families are, in fact, a universal across cultures. Every culture in the world, even those that were considered outside the normal white Anglo bounds of civilization, seemed to have family structures that were similar to ours. This showed that there is some sort of inborn tendency for people to gravitate to families.