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Revision as of 07:27, 16 April 2002 by Ed Poor (talk | contribs) (NPOV for now, but I'm sure gay rights advocates and feminists will destroy it)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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