people do not use family in the way you are describing have you ever said my family are taking a vacation this summer or the whole family are sick i do not know why you are insisting on making the sentence awkward and bizarre it is not appropriate the way you are using it i have offered to work with you and instead you are just reverting the sentence this is not helpful and does not improve the article i have made a different edit this time this one is just as accurate as all of the other sentences i have written but makes distributions the subject hopefully that will be more to your liking