The English-language Wikipedia article on the extended family, covering its stem-family and joint-family variants and the Indian subcontinent's patrilineal joint family. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_family
Source TypeEncyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia article used for standard, uncontested definitional and historical claims. Sources
Wikipedia: Extended Family
WikipediaArticle, self-citation: entity-descriptionQuote, Article, self-citation: entity-description
An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family of parents and their children to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or other relatives, all living nearby or in the same household.
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)
This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Kinship and Family Systems, 13 claims: 7 well-attested, 6 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
Well-attested
12Kinship and Family Systems
General References
6Kinship and Family Systems
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