A Birds-Eye View On The Twists And Turns Of Family Relationships
We can take many perspectives on the family and family relationships. By family, we can mean the parents and children who live together and form one economic unit. We can mean the institution that provides for the care and nurturing of children, or the group that nurtures and cares for us. A family, in these senses, do not require a blood relationship. Family relationships may be established between individuals of entirely different genetic lines. Adoption is one of the forms we use to formally place into parental custody a child without parents. In most cases of adoption, the parents and child have no genetic relationship between them. Parents and children living together in these roles, regardless of blood relationship, forms a family.