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.
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1. Immediate family (Wikipedia)
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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.
English Wikipedia, intro text
It normally includes a person's parents, siblings, spouse, children, and parents-in-law after marriage.
Lead, institution-type-category 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.
Lead, membership-basis birth
It normally includes a person's parents, siblings, spouse, children, and parents-in-law after marriage.
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