When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.
Family In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption (see Nurture kinship). 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 callednuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, 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.Families are the foundation of society,in that world we nurtured and given tools to go out in to the world,make capable and healthy- or we aren't[1]. As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for anthropologists and sociologists of the family. Sexual relations among the members are regulated by rules concerningincest such as the incest taboo. Family also spend time together to know each other. is not whose blood you carry, it is who you love and who loves you.
There are many types of families: 1. Joint family 2. Nuclear family 3. Childless family
A joint family comprises