Relationships:

Family



(Background taken from here)

Firstly, what is a family?
Does family only limited to blood relatives?
If one has a fight with his brother, is he still considered family?
Why does best friends sometimes call each other, "brother" or "sister?"
Does an adopted brother, sister, son, parent, cousin count as "family?"

"There are two ways for a woman to have a child - through her womb or through her heart." - Frederick Alicias

Family denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," anthropologists have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts rather than through genetic distance.

A conjugal family consists of one or more parents/guardians and their children. The most common form of this family is regularly referred to as a nuclear family.

A consanguineal family consists of a parent and his or her children, and other people. This kind of family is common where mothers do not have the resources to rear their children on their own, and especially where property is inherited. When important property is owned by men, consanguineal families commonly consist of a husband and wife, their children and other members of the husband's family.

A matrifocal family consists of a mother and her children. Generally, these children are her biological offspring, although adoption of children is a practice in nearly every society. This kind of family is common where women have the resources to rear their children by themselves, or where men are more mobile than women.

Source: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (Read more about the definition of a 'family' here.)

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Family Tips - 10 Top Things Never to Believe When Your Children Say Them



By Maureen Lawrence



Do you believe most things that your children say to you?

Most parents would say that they don't but maybe you succumb sometimes to one of these things said by your children.

Read these tips for dads and moms and give them to your child to read too.

1 It's not my fault B.. made me do.

Out of all these family tips this is one of the most common and is the cry of children all over the world. Other people do influence us but we have to take responsibility for our own actions and responses. You child has to learn to do this. Make sure it's not your response when things go wrong. Although you need to make sure that your child isn't being bullied into doing something he doesn't want to do.

2 I've never skipped classes/school before.

This is unlikely. Usually by the time a child gets caught skipping classes or school they've usually done it a number of previous times. This time he's been caught and knows he's likely to be punished and is trying to find a way of avoiding this.

3 I don't have homework tonight

Sometimes this is true. Other times what he means is he doesn't have any homework that he has to complete by tomorrow. One of my parents tips is always check it out by delving a bit further and make sure he doesn't frequently leave doing his homework until the last possible minute.

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Creating Family Traditions



Summary: Creating new family traditions is simple. It's the follow-through and being consistent that may be difficult. Choose one tradition you'd like to begin, and stick with it for a few years. Add more traditions as the years go by—or update old ones.

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Dealing with Quarreling Children



Summary: One of the most frustrating things that any caregiver has to deal with is fighting children. Here are some simple guidelines for you to follow the next time the kids pull out the boxing gloves and get ready to start dueling.

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EQUAL BUT NOT THE SAME





"Equal" is not always synonymous with "the same." Men and women are created equal. But, boys and girls are not born the same.

1. You throw a little girl a ball, and it will hit her in the nose.You throw a little boy a ball, and he will try to catch it. Then it will hit him in the nose.

2. You dress your little girl in her Easter Sunday best, and she'll look just as pretty when you finally make it to church an hour later. You dress a boy in his Easter Sunday best, and he'll somehow find every mud puddle from your home to the church, even if you're driving there.

3. Boys' rooms are usually messy. Girls' rooms are usually messy, except it's a good smelling mess.

4. A baby girl will pick up a stick and look in wonderment at what nature has made. A baby boy will pick up a stick and turn it into a gun.

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