A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as was the case in the Roman Empire). Although many people (including social scientists) have understood familial relationships in terms of "blood," many anthropologists have argued that the notion of "blood" must be understood metaphorically, and in that in many societies family is understoo ...

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• Family - Family cross-culturally
• Family - Family in the West
• Family - Economic function of the family
• Family - Kinship terminology
• Family - English kinship terminology

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Family, Family - Family cross-culturally, Family - Family in the West, Family - Economic function of the family, Family - Kinship terminology, Family - English kinship terminology

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The preceding types of families are found in a wide variety of settings, and their specific functions and meanings depend largely on their relationship to other social institutions. Sociologists are especially interested in the function and status of these forms in stratified, especially capitalist, societies. Non-scholars, especially in the United States and Europe, use the term "nuclear family" to refer to conjugal families. Sociologists distinguish between conjugal families that are relatively independent of the kindreds of the parents and of other families in general, and nuclear families which mainta ...

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Family, Family - Family cross-culturally, Family - Family in the West, Family - Economic function of the family, Family - Kinship terminology, Family - English kinship terminology

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Most Western societies employ English kinship terminology. This kinship terminology is common in societies based on conjugal (or nuclear) families, where nuclear families must be relatively mobile. Members of the nuclear family use descriptive kinship terms: Mother: the female parent Father: the male parent Son: the males born of the mother; sired by the father Daughter: the females born of the mother; sired by the father Brother: a male born of the same mother; sired by the same father Sister: a female bo ...

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Family, Family - Family cross-culturally, Family - Family in the West, Family - Economic function of the family, Family - Kinship terminology, Family - English kinship terminology

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Complex Family is a generic term for any family structure involving more than two adults. The term can refer to any extended family or to a polygamy of any type. It is often used to refer to the group marriage form of polygamy. A joint family is also known as a complex family, parents and their children's families often live under a single roof. This type of family often includes multiple generations in the family. In India, the family is a patriarchal society, wit ...

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A conjugal family is nuclear family of adult partners and their children (by birth or adoption) where the family relationship is principally focused inwardly and ties to extended kin are voluntary and based on emotional bonds, rather than strict duties and obligations. Other related archivesadoption, birth, kin, nuclear family

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Extended family is a term with several distinct meanings. First, it is used synonymously with consanguinal family. Second, in societies dominated by the conjugal family, it is used to refer to kindred (an egocentric network of relatives that extends beyond the domestic group) who do not belong to the conjugal family. Often there could be many generations living under the same roof. In extended families, the network of relatives acts as a close-knit community. Extended families can include, aside from parents and their children, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, foster children etc ...

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The Violin family of instruments was developed in Italy in the 17th Century. It comprises three instruments, the violin, viola and the cello. The double bass is a member of the related viol family, as may be seen by its sloping shoulders compared to the violin. Other related archives17th Century, Italy, cello, double bass, instruments, viol, viola, violin

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Wadia family is a relatively old family of Parsis originally based in Surat. They began in shipbuilding. In 1736 Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia served The British East India Company for building docks and ships in Bombay, now called Mumbai. From then on they would be associated with Mumbai, but many of them remained in Surat. By the 1840s the family was one of the leading forces in shipbuilding in Surat. At that point they had built over a hundred warships for the British and had trading networks around the world This lead to Ardeshir Cursetji Wadia becoming ...

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In the television series, The Simpsons, the Wiggum family consist of Clancy (father and Springfield Police Chief), Sarah (mother), Ralph (child), Magical Leprechaun (imaginary friend), Pinecone (child), and Cloris (grandmother) Wiggum family - Family members. Wiggum family - Ralph. Ralph Wiggum, voiced by Nancy Cartwright, is the only son of Clancy and Sarah Wiggum and picks his nose till it bleeds. Says some of the series' most random one liners. ...

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• Wiggum family - Family members
• Wiggum family - Ralph
• Wiggum family - Clancy
• Wiggum family - Sarah
• Wiggum family - Pinecone
• Wiggum family - Leprechaun
• Wiggum family - Chewbacca
• Wiggum family - Cloris

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The American Family Physician is a medical journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Full text articles are available at http://www.aafp.org/afp.xml. Other related archivesAmerican Academy of Family Physicians, medical journal

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Originating in Columbus, Ohio, the Bush family in the 20th century became an accomplished political family in the United States. In January 2005, The Economist described the Bush family as the most successful political dynasty in U.S. history. Bush family - Family tree. The following is an approximate family tree of some of the members of the Bush family: George Bush (1796-1859) a biblical scholar and distant relative Samuel P. Bush (1863-1948), a close advisor to President Hoov ...

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• Bush family - Family tree
• Bush family - Ancestors
• Bush family - Obadiah Newcomb Bush
• Bush family - Timothy Bush Jr.
• Bush family - Timothy Bush
• Bush family - Richard Bush
• Bush family - Connections to other prominent families
• Bush family - Anne Hutchinson
• Bush family - Pierce family connections
• Bush family - Kerry family connections

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For the macabre group of characters created by Charles Addams and featured in cartoons, television, and movies, see The Addams Family. The Adams family was a prominent political family in the United States during the late eighteenth century through early twentieth century. The most well-known members included: Samuel Adams (1722-1803), American Revolutionary John Adams (1735-1826), Samuel's second cousin, second President of the United States Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John's wife, t ...

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The Batman Family is an informal name for a group of DC Comics superheroes associated with the costumed crime fighter Batman. These characters are generally masked vigilantes who were trained by Batman and/or operate in his home of Gotham City with at least his tacit approval. The Batman Family rarely operates as a proper superhero team, but more like a network of similarly-minded superheroes with Batman as its head. Although some of them occasionally resent Batman’s intrusion in their lives, the Batman family members conside ...

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• Batman Family - Current Famliy
• Batman Family - Deceased members
• Batman Family - Former Members: Villains?
• Batman Family - Other Uses

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Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia The Anura is the order of animals in the class Amphibia that includes frogs and toads. Although distinctions can be made between frogs and toads, those distinctions have no scientific status. Anura family list - Scientific classification. There are around 5,070 species currently recognized in the Anura class. The living Anura are typically divided into three suborders: Suborder Archaeobatrachia - 4 families, 6 genera, 28 spe ...

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• Anura family list - Scientific classification

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The immensely rich bin Laden family, intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family was thrown into prominence through the activities of Osama bin Laden. The bin Laden family own and operate a global corporation annually grossing 5 billion U.S. dollars, based upon the largest construction firm in the Islamic world, with offices in London and Geneva. [1] The family traces its origins in Saudi Arabia to Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden (died 1967), a native of the Chafeite (Sunni) Hadramaut coast in Yemen, who ...

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• Bin Laden family - The Mecca event
• Bin Laden family - bin Ladens and King Fahd
• Bin Laden family - Business connections of the Bush and bin Laden families
• Bin Laden family - After September 11 2001

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The Weasleys are a fictional family of wizards who figure prominently in the plot of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of novels, primarily because the youngest son, Ron Weasley, is the best friend of the series' protagonist, Harry Potter. The Weasleys have seven children, all of whom have red hair and freckles. Weasley family - The Nuclear Family and Residence. Arthur and Molly Weasley (née Prewett) have seven children: (from oldest to youngest) Bill, Charlie, Percy, identical twins Fred and Geor ...

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• Weasley family - The Nuclear Family and Residence
• Weasley family - Pets and Animals
• Weasley family - Blood Traitors
• Weasley family - Extended family
• Weasley family - Gabrielle Delacour
• Weasley family - Gideon and Fabian Prewett
• Weasley family - Relatives mentioned in passing
• Weasley family - Trivia

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The Sackville-Baggins family was founded by the marriage of Longo Baggins to Camellia Sackville, heiress of the Sackville family headship. Their son, Otho Sackville-Baggins, adopted a double name, kept by his wife Lobelia (née Bracegirdle). They had a son Lotho, who was murdered. At Lobelia's death the brief-lived family disappeared. The name Sackville was a familiar "aristocratic" name in Tolkien's day, especially in double-barrelled names such as Sackville-West, and he presumably used it (and the ...

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Baggins family, Baggins family - Sackville-Baggins family, Baggins family - List of Bagginses

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In the narrower sense of the term, a family history is a biography of a single family over several generations, based on a tested genealogy and fleshed out with the fuller story of the family's place in society, the dramas of its achievements or failures and its acquisition or loss of wealth and rank. Such a study mainly draws on oral history for the recent period and archival records for the period beyond living memory. Where an individual's own story is unknown, much can be inferred from other literature. For example, a singl ...

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Family history, Family history - Introduction, Family history - Motivation, Family history - The single family history, Family history - Conducting a Project, Family history - Benefits, Family history - External link

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While genealogy is the convenient label for the field, family history is the over-arching term, since genealogy in the strict sense is only concerned with tracing unified lineages. Other sectors of family history, such as one-name studies, may pay only rudimentary attention to lineages, or may emphasize biography rather than vital data. Most genealogical societies in Britain are united in the Federation of Family History Societies. Forms of family-history research include: genealogy (tracing a living person's pedig ...

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Family history, Family history - Introduction, Family history - Motivation, Family history - The single family history, Family history - Conducting a Project, Family history - Benefits, Family history - External link

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