Family

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).

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 into by a loving parent or family.