Also known as families, a family
thumb|right|Sauk people|Sauk family photographed by [[Frank Rinehart in 1899]] Family (from ) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization.
A family is a group of people connected through birth or marriage who live together and support one another. Families are important because they provide structure, safety, and teach people how to function in their communities—making them the foundation of how societies organize themselves.
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thumb|right|Sauk people|Sauk family photographed by [[Frank Rinehart in 1899]] Family (from ) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization.
Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal (a married couple with children, also called the nuclear family), avuncular (a man, his sister, and her children), or extended (in addition to parents, spouse and children, may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins).
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