In the context of a human being, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the main institution for socializing children. Extended from human “family unit” by biological affinity — culture, marriage, economy, culture, tradition, honor, and friendship is the concept of family physical and metaphorical, or growing increasingly inclusive expanding community, village, city, region, nationality, global village and humanism. Family groups consisting of a father, mother and their children referred to the nuclear family. This term can be compared with the family.
There are concepts of a family tradition in certain communities in violation of, or they are transferred through migration to evolve or stop in their new communities. As the basic unit of socialization and Community institutions for the structure, the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family. Genealogy is a field that aims to trace family lineage throughout history. In science, the term “family” has been used as a means of classifying a group of objects that closely and exclusively associated with it. In animal studies have found that many species form a group that has similarities to the “human family”-often called “packets.” Sexual intercourse between family members are governed by the rules regarding incest as incest taboo.
When additional generations intervene (in other words, when a person is guaranteed the same generation’s relatives as grandparents or grandchildren), the prefix “great-” or “grand-” change the terms of this. Also, with grandparents and grandchildren, as more generations intervene the prefix “great-grand-,” adds an additional “big-” to each generation. Most collateral relatives have never had a membership of the nuclear family members of his own nuclear family.