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Definition of a family:
- A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.
- All the descendants of a common ancestor
- In its most basic terms, a family is a group of individuals who share a legal or genetic bond.
Legal bonds: legally bound through marriages, adoptions, and guardianships. Legal bonds can be changed, expanded, or dissolved to change the composition of a family.
Blood bonds: individuals who are related through a common ancestor are part of a family. This includes both close and distant relatives such as siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Researching a family tree or genealogical records can reveal familial blood bonds
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