Family

• The family consists of a man, his wife/wives, and his children that aren't married.
• there are no more than 15 persons in one home- most families have two tree houses to accommodate for a large families.
• clan territory is transfered to the male clan members- same with property
• children are mostly raised by their mothers and other males. Babies are breast feed. 
• Storytelling, sharing gossip, and teaching songs and sayings that contain practical wisdom are elements of socialization.
• A little girl is actively involved as soon as possible in all female duties. At the age of about ten she is married to a much older man who expects her to be competent with respect to economy, social life, and sexuality
• young girls often receive corporal punishment by their husbands
• When a boy reaches his teens, adult males teach him to discharge a man's duties. Then the boy is informed step by step about intraclan and interclan sensitivities and tensions.
• at 15 boys participate fully in war, etc 
• curiosity is discouraged in children 

Stasch, Rupert (2001). "Figures of Alterity among Korowai of Irian Jaya: Kinship, Mourning, and Festivity in a Dispersed Society." Unpublished Ph.D dissertation. University of Chicago.

Van Enk, Gerrit. "Korowai." Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 3 Dec. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.