family unit
Parents and children
A family unit is a household of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption who live together as a social and economic group.
The term often appears in policy discussions and sociology, where it can be defined narrowly (parents and children) or broadly (extended relatives, unmarried partners).
The tax code offers benefits to the traditional family unit.
The phrase sometimes carries conservative connotations, implying a specific structure worth preserving.
- foster careSupervised substitute parenting
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- kinshipState of being related
- blood relativesFamily by birth
- relativesThose connected by blood
cohabitation · child · two-parent household · kin · guardianship · coparenting · raising kids · clan · single parent · siblings · consanguinity · multigenerational · dependents · domestic partnership · domestic · tribe · dinner table · Sunday dinner
- householdshousehold, residents, married couple, occupants, roommates
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- family lifebirth, kinship, childbirth, pregnancy, new baby
- family bondslove, parent-child bond, trust, sibling bond, loyalty
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- family typessingle parent, household, multigenerational, stepfamily, parents
family unitcommune
Shared-living community
collective · kibbutz · group home · institution · orphanage
family unitindividual
One separate human being
single person · loner · isolate · hermit · lone wolf
family unitbroken home
Family split by separation
dysfunctional family · estranged family · family breakdown · abandonment