page_title: Family
section_title: Extended family
hierarchical_section_title: Family / Types / Extended family
caption_attribution_description: English: Settled Sami (Lapplander) farmers in Stensele, Västerbotten, Sweden. PC published in 1926. Read more in Saamiblog: http://saamiblog.blogspot.com/
context_page_description: In human society, family is a group of people related either by consanguinity or affinity. The purpose of families is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideally, families would offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and participate in the community. In most societies, it is within families that children acquire socialization for life outside the family. Additionally, as the basic unit for meeting the basic needs of its members, it provides a sense of boundaries for performing tasks in a safe environment, ideally builds a person into a functional adult, transmits culture, and ensures continuity of humankind with precedents of knowledge.
  Anthropologists generally classify most family organizations as matrifocal; patrifocal; conjugal; avuncular; or extended.
  Members of the immediate family may include spouses, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. Members of the extended family may include aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings-in-law.
context_section_description: The term "extended family" is also common, especially in the United States. This term has two distinct meanings:
  It serves as a synonym of "consanguinal family" (consanguine means "of the same blood").
  In societies dominated by the conjugal family, it refers to "kindred" (an egocentric network of relatives that extends beyond the domestic group) who do not belong to the conjugal family.
  These types refer to ideal or normative structures found in particular societies. Any society will exhibit some variation in the actual composition and conception of families.
caption: Settled Sami (Lapplander) family of farmers in Stensele, Västerbotten, Sweden, early 20th century
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