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Encyclopedia > Family (disambiguation)
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A family is a domestic or social group. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the...


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In science:

In television: In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. ... A group, also known as a family, is a vertical column in the periodic table of the chemical elements. ...

In other fields: ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by Disney/ABC. // History Beginnings The network was founded by Pat Robertson in April 1977 as CBN Cable, an arm of his Christian Broadcasting Network. ... Family is the sixth episode of season 5 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Family is the first episode of the second season of Masters of Horror. ... Family was the second episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Family is the name of an award-winning television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. ... Family Channel, colloquially now known as Family, is a television service in Canada, owned by Astral Media, geared mainly towards kids and younger teenagers. ... It has been suggested that Family Feud Broadcast History (United States), Family Feud in popular culture, Family Feud rules and production, Family Feud around the world be merged into this article or section. ...

This is about the British rock band Family. ... Family was a cult band from Spain in the 1990s. ... Family - Ties of Blood is a 2006 Bollywood movie directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Bhoomika Chawla and Aryeman Ramsey. ... In mathematics, an index set is another name for a function domain. ... A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. ... Ba Jin in 1938 Li Yaotang (Simplified Chinese: , Styled Feigan; ) (November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005) is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the twentieth century. ... The Children of God (COG), later known as the Family of Love, the Family, and now the Family International, is a new religious movement, widely referred to as a cult by the media and some government organizations, that started in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ...

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Family - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (2547 words)
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).
From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family serves to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their enculturation and socialization.
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 maintain relatively close ties with their kindreds.
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