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| A group of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption, live together, are an economic unit, and bear and raise children. |
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| refers to a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. |
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| is the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place. |
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| is the family a person forms by having or adopting children. |
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| is composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household. |
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| is composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives. |
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Families are diverse and fragmented.
Boundaries between workplace and home are blurred.
Family problems are related to cyberspace and consumerism in an age characterized by high-tech “haves’ and “have-nots.” |
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| Families that consist of a husband, wife, and children from previous marriages and (if any) children from the new is called a blended family. |
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