~~August 9, 2014~~
In human context, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption. Members of the immediate family may include a spouse, parent, brother and sister, and son and daughter.
Members of the extended family may include grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew and niece, or sibling-in-law. In most societies the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children.
As the basic unit for raising children, anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children; also called nuclear family); avuncular (for example a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended family in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent’s family.
As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for anthropologists and sociologists of the family.
“Family” is used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, global village and humanism.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family
~~Video that inspired a million lives~~
~~Published on Dec 13, 2012~~
I found this video today
and it has inspired me so much.
It shows that our parents are great no matter how much we do for them is never enough in compare to what they have done for us.
Love your family every second of your life
Because family is the greatest gift.
We ALL are ONE!!
Reblogged this on Voice of Lesbian Senior and commented:
As the “Voice of the Lesbian Senior” … a reminder that family is forever!!
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my family. Life experience tells me so.
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Me too …. I think it’s really all we have. Others leave. ❤ ….
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This was lovely. I think I am to close to the surface today, it scratched my heart a bit.
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Glad you liked it!! TY … Hugs!!
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Loved this post! Lots of love, Emily
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Beautiful and true….your family photos are lovely!
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Thank you!! Yes, that’s my family!! 🙂
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