<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> In the context of human society, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family") or some combination of these . Members of the immediate family may include spouses, parents, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters . Members of the extended family may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings - in - law . Sometimes these are also considered members of the immediate family, depending on an individual's specific relationship with them . </P> <P> In most societies, the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children . As the basic unit for raising children, anthropologists generally classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended (parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family). Sexual relations among the members are regulated by rules concerning incest such as the incest taboo . </P> <P> The word "family" can be used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, global village, and humanism . </P>

What are the different kinds of family patterns