What does "family" mean to you?

Yes i do fully agree with u.Family does not mean just those titles.Family to me are people who stand by me in my good times and bad and those who love me unconditionally.nowadays its very difficult to expect this from your immediate family.

Family is the basic unit of society. It is where we primarily learn how to be human. Who we are can be attributed from our upbringing. I'm not saying all of it but some. Of course we are influence by other factors. I have a closely knit family ties and for me family includes my parents, brother and relatives who made my life meaningful. Along the way I met people who seems to be a part of my family, who has been there always and whom I can count on for good times or bad times. They don’t judge me but points out to me their view.

family for me is like my life, I can't stand without my family. They help me when im down, they help me when I need, and I never pay for that. I believe if you life in a good family member you will be very happy with that family.

Family i smy mother,father,sisters and brothers, neices, nephews and extended family as well. Now,my family is my in laws and my best friend 'Lena' and her grandkids. I am their god momma..and they are my god daughters. Family is someone who I love no matter and can trust...Yes we fight. But we know when we are done fighting...we will be there for each other when needed.

Family to me means that the house which is full of love.

Family is the most important thing in my life. The time you enjoy with family is your golden time in your life. So family should always be given the utmost importance.

Throughout our day-to-day living, family plays an integral role in our lives. From celebrating holiday dinners to vacationing together, family provides an outlet to the daily stresses that we experience. As these members support our choices and the different paths that we may choose in life, they motivate us to never surrender our personal hopes and dreams. Asked candidly, random individuals uniquely define and express appreciation for their "family" in the vignettes that follow. My definition of family is someone who cares about you. Sometimes you have to have a lot of love and motivation to care about other people besides yourself. It's good to always think about other people in addition to yourself."There is a nuclear family and a regular family. My nuclear family would be here [at ULV]. I don't think there's a real definition, but it's something that is really really important to me -- to my parents and my brother. It is one of the most important things in my life. It is something that you don't get to choose, but you have to learn to appreciate. If you can manage to do that, you don't even have to call them family anymore. You can just call them buddies. They don't have to be parents.Family is the most important thing in life. I come from a foster home orphanage, so anything that feels as close as you feel within a family is family to you. I have a fiancée, so she's my family now. Before that, my best friends were my family. Family are people who are usually related to you by blood, but not necessarily so-people with whom you feel a kinship and a bond. It could be your children, or it can be your best friend. When you talk about extended family, it's only because it's not someone who's related to you by blood; but they can be as supportive as family who are related by blood. This whole Admissions Office is very close. I consider that a family.Family is when, hopefully, both the mother and dad are there at home with the children and having children who are obedient and are clean cut and Christians. It would be nice to live in a little town like La Verne because it's much nicer than the big city.Family are people whom you feel comfortable being with, people whom you love, people whom you enjoy.Family doesn't necessarily have to be a biological unit, but it's necessary to have a community that you feel safe in. It's not necessarily a home or intangible, but just somewhere you can go where you feel like you belong and people who are there to take care of you. The girls and I who live in my wing all have a family sense. We support one another and all let each other know what's going on.Family is the most significant and the greatest bond between two people. I belong to Phi Delta Theta, which I consider a family to me.

Families, and their loved ones who live in the house Lane happy.

well family is a tree wherein you have lot of relationships and you to maintain it well...lead the family and see to it that everybody are happy

I AGREE WITH WHAT U SAD.IN MY OPINION OR FOR ME FAMILY IS HAVING ALWAYS THE RIGHT PERSON NEXT TO U IN GOOD AND BAD .MY FAMILY IS MY FATHER,MOTHER,MY HUSBAND .I COULD HAVE FRIENDS IN MY FAMILY BUT I DON'T TRUST THEM LIKE I TRUST MY FAMILY .

Family to me is being there for your family (or even best friends) no matter what. Whether it's lending an ear or being there to physically help in anyway, that is the true meaning of family. Not to mention those who you love.

Family, to my mind, is all those born within your family tree, and their spouses' family trees. Having said that though, I think of some of my closer friends as family. I have a two friends in America and Canada whom I call Sis and they call me the same. That's an indication that they're part of my family, in the same vein as you include your friends. Others, I call close friends or friends. These I love and trust equally to my family, some, a little more maybe. I know they will always be there for me and they know I will always be here for them, whatever the circumstances. They know they can call me any hour of the day or night, and they can rely on my full support in any matter. But, even though the tie is the same, or better, I don't call them family.

For me, It means always being there for them. No matter what!they are my life, the reason for my being, the source of my perseverance in work and they mean the world to me,i absolutely love my family. They're the greatest!:)

Hey that's my story lol " Family for me is the ppl in my life that I love unconditionally and that love us unconditionally. The ppl who are there with me and I with them through the good and bad..the ppl I can talk to about anything without either of us passing judgement....Family to me are the ppl that I can lose touch with for yrs and then when we do see each other or talk to each other again its like no time has passed..Thats what family means to me....Having the title of Mother or Father or Brother/Sister etc means nothing to me personally..legally those ppl are my family but in reality my family are actually my dearest friends and their kids, my husband and my kids" We cannot choose our family, and I have seen many dissapointing examples of Family strife. Usually someone gets an ego that doesn't care about sharing or fairnes or helping someone. But with dear friends, we can feel a trust and comfort that makes them family in our hearts.

Family are the people in your life who are there for you during the good and the bad. They don't kick you while you are down, and they love you unconditionally. That being said there are people that are blood related to me that I don't consider family... and there are people of no blood relation that are definately family to me.

For me family have influence that realy important to build my character for a positive developing. They always suport for all my activities, even some time we have a problem to discuss. But i think that`s normal if we have some problem.Some example, i choose the wrong major and ny family gie the advice that the major i chose not deserve for me. They think i don`t have capability for that major, thay offer me another major without pusshing me to chose one. The final decision must come from my mind, this is realy important. Some time make decision by our self not a good way, and much beter if discuss with another person especialy with our family member. Failed or succes, my family always be there, this is the best think. With all my respect to my best friends, family is the best.

Family is a deeply important aspect of my life. I very much love my immeidate family, my husband, my daughters and my son. I also deeply love my extended family and I'm one of the rare few in this world that can honestly say that I genuinely love ALL of my in-laws. My husband and my sister are my best friends and they have always loved me and supported me in all that I do. I have many friends that I have adopted along the way as family. We also have a church family that we love very much.

FAMILY...... the group of DAD ,MOM & SIBLINGS...

Freud's Concept of the Family biology, as I will show below. We are thus faced with a circle, a circle of incomprehension, a circle that reduces and distorts the explanatory power of psychoanalysis, ultimately calling into question its advances in its stronghold of personality theory. The fundamental principle of Freudian psychology is that the structure of the mind is formed in childhood. The mind is not, therefore, pre-given, but built up through a process. Two questions are raised by this principle, neither of which Freud deals with properly: (1) the degree to which this process is universal and necessary, and (2) the degree to which it is a purely psychological as distinct from a sociological process. (A third question, which I will discuss in Chapter 3 in relation to Erik Erikson, is the degree to which the structure of the mind is subject to further development and also to structural change after childhood.) The strength and power of Freudian theory derives from the way in which Freud is consistent with the fundamental principle and explores its ramifications in depth. The focus on childhood allows Freud to get beyond the normal structure of the consciousness of his day, beyond its rationality and its defenses, and allowed him to explore the realms of the unconscious, of sexuality, of dreams, slips and jokes, to analyze the logic and the mechanisms of non-rational consciousness and to demonstrate its importance and ubiquity. At the same time these advances of Freud are the source of his weakness, indeed of his misleading and ideological positions. For Freud is unable to set the body of his advances in a wider context of historical and social theory. The concept of childhood mental formation is left without a proper elaboration of the conditions of its possibility, and this lack comes back to haunt and to qualify Freud's insights. Although these questions arise at the periphery of the psychoanalytic object, at the horizon of its field where it intersects with history and social theory, nonetheless they compel Freud to advance inadequate propositions to cover up and mask his omissions. In the end he will defend the bourgeois family as a universal and necessary

Family is precious. Whether they be blood or spiritual, the connection you make is priceless. I have blood family that I can not even speak to without feeling fake, but I have spiritual family that I can spill my soul to. Those I am spiritually connected to I would bend over backwards for.