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In human context, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrilocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, husband, and children, also called nuclear family); and consanguinal (also called an extended family) in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family.
There are also concepts of family that break with tradition within particular societies, or those that are transplanted via migration to flourish or else cease within their new societies. As a unit of socialization the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family. Genealogy is a field which aims to trace family lineages through history. In science, the term "family" has come to be used as a means to classify groups of objects as being closely and exclusively related. In the study of animals it has been found that many species form groups that have similarities to human "family"—often called "packs." Sexual relations among family members are regulated by rules concerning incest such as the incest taboo.
Bellamy Brothers - Our Family
They let Bubba out of prison
He paid for his crime
He didn't know them bad cheques
Could give him so much time
Sister's getting married
There's a shotgun on the groom
Hope they finish the wedding vows
Before the baby's due
Harry's in the closet
He's been there all his life
Everybody wonders
Why he never took a wife
We owe a lot of bills
Trying to live beyond our means
Ain't got a pot,
But we got cable TV,
CHORUS
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But it's our family
Full of skeletons and ghosts
And even with our strange relatives
It's the one we love the most
There may be a bunch of nuts
Up our family tree
Yeah we may all be crazy
But it's still our family
Grandpa's got a girlfriend
A woman half his age
Grandma laughs about it
But I sense the silent rage
And Uncle Burt still thinks
He's on the grand old armoury
That fever from the war
Left him living in a dream
We buried Great Ann-Martha
Out the forest lawns today
Now I think I know why
They Called Great Ann-Martha great
The church was full of strange men
Mama called it a disgrace
She said they should have wiped that
Smile off Great Ann-Marthas face
Chorus
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But it's our family
Full of skeletons and ghosts
And even with our strange relatives
It's the one we love the most
There may be a bunch of nuts
Up our family tree
Yeah we may all be crazy