Kinship structure in the ""totok"" community follows the patrilineal, patrilocal, and patriarchal traditions of Chinese society, a practice which has lost emphasis in ""peranakan"" familial relationships. Instead, kinship patterns in indigenized families have incorporated elements of matrilocal, matrilineal, and matrifocal traditions found in Javanese society. Within this community, both sons and daughters can inherit the family fortune, including ancestral tablets and ashes. Political, social, and economic authority in ""peranakan"" families is more evenly distributed between the two genders than in ""totok"" families. Kin terms do not distinguish between maternal and paternal relatives and polygyny is strongly frowned upon. Western influence in ""peranakan"" society is evidenced by the high proportion of childless couples. Those who did have children also had fewer of them than ""totok"" couples.