Family

According to the Britannica - The definition of Family

Family, a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings. The family group should be distinguished from a household, which may include boarders and roomers sharing a common residence. It should also be differentiated from a kindred (which also concerns blood lines), because a kindred may be divided into several households. Frequently the family is not differentiated from the marriage pair, but the essence of the family group is the parent-child relationship, which may be absent from many marriage pairs.

At its most basic, then, a family consists of an adult and his or her offspring. Most commonly, it consists of two married adults, usually a man and a woman (almost always from different lineages and not related by blood) along with their offspring, usually living in a private and separate dwelling. This type of unit, more specifically known as a nuclear family, is believed to be the oldest of the various types of families in existence. Sometimes the family includes not only the parents and their unmarried children living at home but also children that have married, their spouses, and their offspring, and possibly elderly dependents as well; such an arrangement is called an extended family.

Some principals to make your relationship work from our Signature Relationship Package

  • Providing emotional and psychological security
  • Providing a valuable social and political function by institutionalizing procreation and by providing guidelines for the regulation of sexual conduct.
  • Dealing with the rearing and socialization of children, along with such humanitarian activities as caring for its members when they are sick or disabled.
  • Providing food, shelter, clothing, and physical security for its members, some of whom may be too young or too old to provide for the basic necessities of life themselves
  • Promote order and stability within society as a whole.