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Family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).
A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family".
A dysfunctional family affects familial ties and creates conflicts in the same family space. A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly.
Family tree showing the relationship of each person to the orange person, including cousins and gene share. A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.
An American family composed of the mother, father, children, and extended family The out of wedlock birth rates by race in the United States from 1940 to 2014. The rate for African Americans is the purple line.
In its most common use, the term nuclear family refers to a household consisting of a mother, a father, and their children, [5] all living in one household dwelling. [4] George Murdock, an observer of families, offered an early description: The family is a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction.
We have a close relationship, and I haven't stopped being her Girlfriend Mom, even though I'm no longer the girlfriend. I'm not one to get caught up on technicalities.
A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption, and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family."