IMMEDIATEFAMILY

Immediate family

The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a person's family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a person's parents, spouses, siblings and children. It can contain others connected by birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation, such as grandparents, grandchildren, siblings-in-law, half-siblings, adopted children and step-parents/step-children, and cohabiting partners.

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immediate family

Noun

  1. A family unit consisting of a parent or parents and their children.
  2. A family unit consisting of all relatives living in a single household.


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