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An American family composed of the mother, father, children, and extended family. The out of wedlock birth rates by race in the United States from 1940 to 2014. The rate for African Americans is the purple line. Data is from the National Vital Statistics System Reports published by the CDC National Center for Health Statistics.
The term "family values" is often used in political discourse in some countries, its general meaning being that of traditional or cultural values that pertain to the family's structure, function, roles, beliefs, attitudes, and ideals, usually involving the "traditional family"—a middle-class family with a breadwinner father and a homemaker ...
Nuclear family. An American nuclear family composed of the mother, father, and their children, c. 1955. A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, cereal packet family[ 1] or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. It is in ...
The history of the family is a branch of social history that concerns the sociocultural evolution of kinship groups from prehistoric to modern times. [ 1] The family has a universal and basic role in all societies. [ 2] Research on the history of the family crosses disciplines and cultures, aiming to understand the structure and function of the ...
Family tree showing the relationship of each person to the orange person, including cousins and gene share. A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms .
In family dictatorships, political power is passed down within one family because of the overwhelming authority of the leader. For example, in Haiti a form of hereditary dictatorship was founded by François Duvalier (Papa Doc); it operated much like an absolute monarchy, yet within a nominally republican state.
Sociology. Sociology of the family is a subfield of the subject of sociology, in which researchers and academics study family structure as a social institution and unit of socialization from various sociological perspectives. It can be seen as an example of patterned social relations and group dynamics.
A wooden house in Tartu, Estonia. This is a list of house types.Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings.