family circles
Close relative networks
Family circles are the groups of people connected by kinship or close bonds—immediate relatives and sometimes extended family who form one's domestic or emotional inner ring.
The phrase emphasizes intimacy and belonging: The news spread quickly within family circles.
In theater, a family circle is an upper balcony section with cheaper seats, historically where families of modest means could afford to sit together.
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- reunionGathering after separation
- parentsMother and father
- relativesThose connected by blood
- siblingsFellow offspring
children · connections · home · kitchen table · Sunday dinner · gathering · storytelling · matriarchy · tribes · blood ties · heirlooms · rituals · kinship · lineage · ceremonies · holiday traditions · ancestry · holidays
- restorative justicerestorative justice, restorative practices, peacemaking, reparation, reintegration
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
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