Definitions for family unit
fam·i·ly unit

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

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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1. • Kin

How to pronounce family unit?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Jeff Hensley:

   We will serve families, regardless of whether the veteran is involved, Williams said. VETERANS ORGANIZATION HELPING WAR HEROES FORGE SPECIAL BONDS That means spouses and children can also take advantage of the free services, something clients say the VA is not really setup to do. Cohen clinicians say the focus on healing the entire family unit has been extremely successful and military families have responded well. It particularly helped Hensley’s family. The retired naval pilot said he struggled to transition back to civilian life after leaving the military.He also started to notice the toll his military service had taken on his young children and he describes that as his rock-bottom. I think I was most shocked about my older son.

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. Pearl S. Buck:

   The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

4. Claudia Mobley:

   He wanted them to be a family unit again.

5. 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.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=family unit
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Unit
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