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Adoptive family
* Adoptive families ARE different
  - are just like biological families
  - come from all walks of life
  - have little control over their international adoption
  - share a strong desire to provide love and care for a child
* Many adoptive families try to search for the roots of their children.

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American family
* American families believe that Mexican women make great nannies
  - consist of mothers
* American families have a diversity of competing, even conflicting, values
  - responsibility to keep their handguns out of the hands of children
  - pay more in taxes than on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined
  - spend more money on taxes than they spend on housing, food, and clothing combined
* Many American families have children and pets
  - live in single family homes
* Most American families live to the full extent of their incomes
  - spend more on driving than on health care, education or food
  - american families consist of mothers

Amish family
* Amish families are large and stable with age bestowing social status.
* Most Amish families eat three meals a day together.

Black family
* Black families experience isolation and the loss of civil and social rights in other forms.
* Most black families stay together because of the strength of a black woman in the household.

Broken home
* are a common factor among boys who have vented their rage in schoolyard shootings
* breed broken hearts, and broken hearts have a diminished capacity to love others.
* mean broken people.

Catholic family
* Catholic families are responsible for providing the next generation of priests and sisters
  - come in all shapes and sizes
  - tend to be larger than Protestant families
* Most catholic families have a copy of the bible in their house.

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Cucurbit
* All cucurbits are susceptible to root knot nematodes.
* Remove and destroy unproductive plants.
* are free from fruit fly infestation
  - important crops
  - of great economic importance and have a long tradition of cultivation in Turkey
  - thought to have originated in southern Mexico and Central America
  - totally dependent on insect pollination since most are monoecious in flower habit
* differ from most garden vegetables in their requirements for pollination.
* have a flowering habit which is quite unique among the vegetable crops.

Different family
* Different families have different attitudes about the purpose of money.
* Different families have different cultures about food
  - and even different religions
  - needs, such as for infants or the elderly
  - ways of celebrating holidays
  - use nutrients differently and, therefore, make different demands upon the soil

Ethiopian family
* Ethiopian families live in towns.
* Most ethiopian families live in towns.

Extended family
* Extended families are common and provide family members with social support and financial security
  - famous for breaking up marriages
  - become particularly important for single parent families
  - claim ownership to land, and inheritance is matrilineal
  - work together in agriculture, especially herding
* Some extended families have their own synagogues.