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| A '''family''' is a group of related people, generally deriving from the marriage of a man and a woman. Historians and sociologists have recorded countless variations of the family. | |||
| A '''nuclear family''' consists of a married couple and their offspring. | |||
| An '''extended family''' adds other close relatives. In America, before the term ''nuclear family'' gained currency, the term ''family'' generally had the meaning of the more modern term ''extended family''. | |||
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A family is a group of related people, generally deriving from the marriage of a man and a woman. Historians and sociologists have recorded countless variations of the family.
A nuclear family consists of a married couple and their offspring.
An extended family adds other close relatives. In America, before the term nuclear family gained currency, the term family generally had the meaning of the more modern term extended family.
Compare: household