2007-01-18 12:40:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Excellent question. Remind me to put the star on this one.
Because obviously, there are many, many different answers possible, depending on a great many variables. In law? Oh, what a sticky wicket! That's a whole great big branch of law.
Household is a better word for a lot of situations. People who live together and feel like a family, but also have family or family-feeling links to people who live elsewhere and visit often. Hang out with you a lot. This, too, can be a family, especially if you have hippies in your Family.
Tribe is another word. For many anthropologists, the line between "tribe" and "family" is a rich source of detail and complexity. The Chief or the Matriarch of a tribe is usually not literally the parent or grand parent of them all, but of substantial numbers of them, and integrated with marriage into the tribe. That, too, can go matriarchal or patriarchal. There are advantages and disadvantages to each.
In the end, a family must be essentially self-defined. We are a family because we say we are. So there. Like it or lump it.
2007-01-18 12:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A family is a mother, father, and child or children , grandparents. Who feel happy being together and care about each other.
2007-01-18 12:48:15 · answer #2 · answered by mshklyar2001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A family is a group of people living together who are related by blood or adoption and share the same RESOURCES and RESPONSIBILITY
2015-05-30 04:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A family is what you make it. A man and his dog is a family, a woman and her cat, a man and or woman raising children, in todays society alot of children are being raised by someone other than their parents, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, older siblings, these are families. We define ourselves and our familes.
2007-01-18 13:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by ndlgarden 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
oh man, what a question, sociologists have been arguing over this one for years. I think the simplist definition is a group of individuals who percieve themselves to be a family.
2007-01-19 02:07:35 · answer #5 · answered by gerrifriend 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think a family is a gruop of pepole who love each other very much!
2007-01-18 12:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by Lil lady 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mom,Dad , Kids, grandparents,cousins,aunts,uncles brothers sisters. Whom you love and whom loves you!
2007-01-18 15:36:38 · answer #7 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Me and YOU
2007-01-18 12:51:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋