Immediate family

The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a persons family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a persons parents, siblings, spouse, children, and parents-in-law after marriage, and can contain others connected by birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation, such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, siblings-in-law, half-siblings, cousins, adopted children, step-parents and step-children, and cohabiting partners; the term close relatives is used similarly. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/