0 a family unit that includes grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, and uncles, etc. in addition to parents and children
1 a family that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others in addition to parents and children
A lot of people in his employ and in his extended family tiptoed around Jake, always careful of triggering his wrath.
The extended family structure is no longer as strong as it once was.
A strong feature is that the book includes case studies of extended family systems as well as nuclear family systems.
Having an extended family, however, did not always guarantee a role.
One wonders about the role of extended family contact in this kind of tradition.
The extended family was clearly still an important source of leisure and companionship within the lives of many women in the 1940s and beyond.
It should be noted that for the purposes of the present research, family is defined as the extended family.
The conjugal bond has strengthened, and has weakened the traditionally strong bonds with siblings, parents and other relatives of the extended family.
