What is family solidarity, and how can it affect a culture?

What do you think family solidarity is?

I believe that family solidarity is the unity and support the family members provide for each other in a household. However, I'm not sure if that is correct, and I can not comprehend the correlation between the lack of family solidarity and culture.

Yes, that's correct -- as far as you went. Family solidarity includes a close relationship with those not in your household. It includes aunts, uncles, first and second and third cousins, as well as ancestors. A culture that has strong family solidarity ties usually has the extended family as the first social ties. Often that means hostility toward other family or tribal groups.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=BE4KWt_pKMLXjwTck564Cg&q=+family+solidarity+and+culture.&oq=+family+solidarity+and+culture.&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i22i29i30k1.2553.2553.0.3649.1.1.0.0.0.0.181.181.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.180....0.32lm3CLwauA

So, a lack of family solidarity in a culture or in a community results in a loss of the true aspects of a culture? Like the meanings and values of a tradition or custom?

No. I think all cultures have a degree of family solidarity. Most of us in the U.S. have a solidarity with close family members, but not usually with more distant relatives. We tend to feel a solidarity toward work mates, class mates, neighbors, fellow club members, etc.

It's different from cultures that emphasized solidarity with an extended family.

So, in your opinion, how would a lack of family solidarity affect a culture?

I've given you the facts in the link and with my ideas. Now you draw your own conclusions.

I feel like because, as you stated, American families tend to not focus on their ancestral relatives and extended family as much as other cultures, we do not necessarily understand the values in our particular culture because we do not connect with our roots as much as other countries and cultures do. Sorry if I'm asking so many questions!

That's one way of looking at it.

Thanks!