Question

What is the legal definition of family? What is your definition of family? Are the two the same? Have your ideas about "family" changed over time? Where do you think your ideas about "family" come from?

Answer 1

Legal definition of family - A group of individuals who share ties of blood, marriage, or adoption; a group residing together and consisting of parents, children, and other relatives by blood or marriage; a group of individuals residing together who have consented to an arrangement similar to ties of blood or marriage.

My definition of family- Social form or Social unit of two or more persons are related by blood, marriage or adoption and having a shared commitment to the mutual relationship. See also household with strong bonding and belief from several generation.

Yes because family knows with blood relations and residing together with parents, children and other relative those have direct blood relation.

Yes we are having a common experience about changing ideas over the family because our life has a different phase like child, youth, mature person and old person. When we are growing and become married by slowly we are all increasing towards a new family but know as family. By the passing of time and growing our age from a child to teenager, we all are come to know about the blood relation and family members.