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  • Family
  • A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children. However, family may be considered for the purposes of enumerating similarly formed social units inhabiting a housing unit: A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness.[1]


    [1]    Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary, at: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=16603.