Family
Family is a set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed-upon relationship, or adoption, who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Definition Two:
Family is a group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage, or adoption. Members of families form an economic unit, the adult members of which are responsible for the upbringing of children. While all societies involve some form of family, the form the family takes is widely variable. In modern industrial societies, the main family form is the nuclear family, although a variety of extended family relationships is also found.
Webster Dictionary Meaning
1. Family
- The collective body of persons who live in one house,
and under one head or manager; a household, including parents,
children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.- The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
- Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
- Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
- Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
- A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
- A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
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