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| − | Narrowly, parents and their offspring. More broadly, the group defined as those who have common ancestry. That is, the group produced as a result of [[sex]] leading to offspring. | + | Narrowly, parents and their offspring. More broadly, the group defined as those who have common ancestry. That is, the group produced as a result of [[sex]] leading to offspring. The term is also used more loosely to describe a group with some form of common characteristic or a group with a relationship (other than ancestral). In normal usage, however, family refers to the typical nuclear family. |
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| − | The term is also used more loosely to describe a group with some form of common characteristic or a group with a relationship (other than ancestral).
| + | A nuclear family consists of a mother, a father, and children. An extended family includes grandparents, aunts, uncles nephew, nieces and grandchildren. As single-parent family is one in which only one parent raises the children, often less effectively than in a nuclear family. |
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| − | The traditional western view of a nuclear family is a mother, a father, and children. The traditional western view of the extended family includes grandparents, aunts, uncles nephew, nieces and grandchildren. As single-parent family is one in which only one parent raises the children. In some cultures, a family includes grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other people as part of the core family group.
| + | Children without families are known as orphans. They reside in orphanages, and they generally want to be adopted by loving parents. |
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| − | Children without families are known as orphans. They reside in orphanages, and they generally want to be adopted by a loving parent or family. | |
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