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fam·i·ly unit

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. family, family unitnoun

    primary social group; parents and children

    "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

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  1. family unit

    Family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary locus of attachment, nurturance, and socialization.Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family), avuncular (a man, his sister, and her children), or extended (in addition to parents and children, may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins). The field of genealogy aims to trace family lineages through history. The family is also an important economic unit studied in family economics. The word "families" can be used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, and global village.

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  1. family unit

    A family unit, also often known as a domestic unit, refers to a group of individuals related by blood, marriage, adoption, or cohabitation, who live together, share economic resources, and carry out domestic responsibilities. This unit typically includes parents and their children, but can also extend to grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives. The structure and roles within a family unit can vary greatly across cultures, societies, and individual preferences, with single-parent households, same-sex parent households, nuclear families, and extended families all being examples of different types of family units. It forms a primary social group in society and plays a critical role in the upbringing, socialization, and emotional support of its members.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of family unit in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of family unit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of family unit in a Sentence

  1. Deputy District Attorney Christy Bowles:

    The desperation is what led to his desire to hurt anyone who he felt might be a threat to his family unit. His family unit was everything to him. He did not have a lot of outside interest, a lot of outside friends, a threat to his family unit resulted in his desire to harm anyone who might get in the way of keeping that family whole, and is ultimately what led to the murder of [Maya].

  2. Tom Hoyer:

    We were a family unit of five always trying to fit into a world set up for even numbers, two -, four -, six-seat tables in a restaurant. Two -, four -, six-ticket packages to events. Things like that.

  3. Charlie Hall:

    There's just a greater cohesiveness within the family unit that occurs outside with your hands in the dirt, there's not as much eye-rolling when teenagers are told to do something, not as much fighting between siblings. There's fewer harsh words between spouses.

  4. White House:

    1 out of every 6 family unit cases filed on special expedited dockets at 10 immigration courts has ended with an in absentia removal order.

  5. Eliza Park:

    The patient in these situations truly is the entire family unit.


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