notes on family

Family denotes a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.

Social conservatives often express concern over a purported decay of the family and see this as a sign of the crumbling of contemporary society.

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Family values is a political and social concept used in various cultures to describe values that are believed to be traditional in that culture and in support of the idea that nuclear families are the basic units of culture.