| From a functional perspective, clans help to unify groups by cross-cutting other forms of social organization, such as the settlement, postmarital residence patterns, or age sets. |
| There was no set pattern of postmarital residence. |
| Postmarital residence is neolocal, although flexible, as in the case of an ultimogeniture heir apparent, who remains at home. |
| To date, cohabitation has been, for most people, a premarital, intermarital, or postmarital experience. |
| Nowadays, we split the summer down the middle in what may be as warm a postmarital relationship as one could hope for. |
| If Diana had lived, Camilla would have had reason to want a postmarital rapprochement between Charles and Diana, because it would have made her less unpopular. |
