Shinto Family Life

The Shinto people are very closely involved with their communities and families. More often than not, a family will grow together in the same household for the majority of their lives or live within the same village or city. In places like St. Bishop and Athens, families share apartment building Floors. There is no official head of a household. Usually that title belongs to the eldest female head of the family although it may also go towards the eldest male if no elder woman is found to be living in a family.