With regards to human culture, a family is a gathering of individuals associated either by connection (by perceived birth), proclivity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-living arrangement (as suggested by the historical background of the English word "family") or some blend of these. Individuals from the close family may incorporate life partners, guardians, siblings, sisters, children, and little girls. Individuals from the more distant family may incorporate grandparents, close relatives, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and kin in-law. Here and there these are additionally thought about individuals from the close family, contingent upon a person's particular association with them.
In many social orders, the family is the main organization for the socialization of youngsters. As the fundamental unit for bringing up kids, anthropologists by and large arrange most family associations as matrifocal (a mother and her kids); marital (a spouse, her better half, and youngsters, additionally called the atomic family); avuncular (for instance, a grandparent, a sibling, his sister, and her kids); or expanded (guardians and kids co-dwell with different individuals from one parent's family).