family grouping
(countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
Frude's (1990) discussion of the psychological definition of family, further elaborated in Chapter 2, accords well with family nursing, in that it recognises the non-traditional family groupings such as cohabiting couples, blended famili…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
This strategy of family grouping and sharing of responsibilities appears to be designed to enable coati mothers to devote more time to searching for food, rather than having to individually protect their young.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
This close family grouping may be a fairly recent development, for Lang and Tastevin (1937, p. 70) report that the Mwila once lived in villages of fifteen or twenty families consisting of approximately one hundred people and that, at the…
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