Family
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Shakespeare is bowdlerized between 1807 and 1818 when The Family Shakespeare is published, expurgating "those words and expressions... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" "The family that prays together stays together" "Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Her mother, the Creole, was both a madwoman and a drunkard!—as I found out after I had wed the daughter: for they were silent on family secrets before. Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points."--Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë |
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A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the Roman Empire).
See also
- Childlessness
- Familialism
- Family economics
- Household
- Nepotism
- Parent
- Stepfamily
- Voluntary childlessness
- Families and How to Survive Them