Morgan Monks
Professor Bonnie Moore
English 2010
January 14 2014


Family Definition

1. Oxford dictionary definition

noun (plural families)
1 [treated as singular or plural] a group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit:

"Definition of Family in English ." Oxford Dictionary . Oxford University Press, n.d. Web. 9 Jan 2014. <http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/family>.

2. Family Household (family) : defined in 2000 by the the U.S. Census Bureau:

"A family includes a householder and one or more people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. All people in a household who are related to the householder are regarded as members of his or her family. A family household may contain people not related to the householder, but those people are not included as part of the householder’s family in census tabulations. Thus, the number of family households is equal to the number of families, but family households may include more members than do families. A household can contain only one family for purposes of census tabulations. Not all households contain families since a household may comprise a group of unrelated people or one person living alone." 1.

Price , J. United States, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC . US Department of Commerce . Census 2000 Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics. 2001. Web. <http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/ProfilesTD.pdf>.