The family has been a staple in any society from the beginning of creation. People depend on the family to be there in times of happiness and times of sadness.
Family is so important that it has been studied in both the functional and non functional times.
In order to tell if that family is functional or not the researcher has to base his or her observations from a standard and restrictions that are set. This is the basic unit that everyone calls a family. When a child is born they are born into their family of orientation . This would include the parents and any other siblings within the nuclear family. When a man or woman marries and starts a new nuclear family it is called the family of procreation .