The Family Unit when Life is Cheap

I come from a very violent community in which homemakers were killed very frequently and the children were kept alive for cheap labor.  So what happens to the family unit.
To be a homemaker, first you have to have a well functioning, fully equipped home.  Even if you die that will still remain.  If you die, then legally everything will be litigated most of the time and all the stuff in the house will be split up and mostly sold very cheaply or, more likely, given away.
What will be forfeited will be the whole complex collection of articles that make up a complete family home.  You might be able to sell the home but functionally all the furniture, cosmetics, clothes, kitchen supplies, etc.. will be simply be put back on store shelves.

The home will be empty once again.  You have to find people who have the money to equip it.
To a poor community, a fully equipped house is much for valuable than an empty one.  The richer the house the better.  All you have to do is find someone who is renting who you like and they can move in and having every thing organized and fully equipped.  For no money except what is not paid.  Which the houses were bought.

The problem of course is that you have to report in regularly to the government somehow as the people who own and bought the house.  If they were murdered, and the community wants the house and the person who owns it to function as fast as possible they have to imitate the family unit.

In other words, if there  were a mother, a father and a child then there should be at the very least the same three people. (even if others take their place).  Yes these things can be changed but meanwhile everything is functioning well and a good community member has access to a much better living arrangement than he or she could pay for.  But they have to make up a surrogate family unit.

On the surface this seems okay because three poorer people get a quick and easy upgrade to their standard of living.  the problem is that there is very rarely an exact replica of the people who died.

Thus within what seems to be a cohesive family unit you might have very fierce competing.  As a matter hidden within this structure it is my experience you have bloodthirsty attacks that have to be hidden from all authorities including child administrators, the police and the mayor as well as the neighbors.  And this is a very dangerous and painful thing for the people who are in the unit as well as the community.  If you are a very young child, as I was, it means that you are in for a lot of horror and grief as your parents change into something incomprehensible and strange.  Because they are actually other people and you are too small to see this.