What is your idea of a family unit, who or what does it have to include?

Question

What is your idea of a family unit, who or what does it have to include?

Answer 1

People related by blood or marriage that live together. Generally parents and their children but extended families can include several generations and cousins, aunts, uncles etc.

A family reunion might have 50-200 relatives but some might not know everyone.

A single person could be a family I guess but since I am not married and don't have kids I don't call myself a family.

Answer 2

in my anthropology class he said a family is defined as a wife, husband, and child/children. extended family is defined as wife husband and child/children with some other relative that lives with them.