Family denotes a group of people or mga hayop (many species form the equivalent of a human family wherein the adults care for the young) affiliated sa pamamagitan ng consanguinity, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations sa pamamagitan ng "blood", anthropologists[who?] have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically and that many societies understand family through other concepts rather than through genetic distance.
One of the primary functions of the family is to produce and reproduce persons—biologically and socially.[1][2] Thus, one's experience...