Family

Introduction

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A family is a domestic or social group.

Family or The Family may also refer to:

Mathematics
  • Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters
  • Family of sets, a collection of sets
  • Indexed family, a family where each element can be given an index
  • Normal family, a collection of continuous functions
  • Parametric family, a family where elements are specified by a set of parameters
Religion
  • Holy Family of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph
  • Family International, a religious movement formerly called the Children of God
  • The Family (Australian New Age group), a controversial Australian religious group
  • The Family (Christian political organization), or The Fellowship, a Washington, D.C.–based U.S. Christian group
  • "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", a 1995 statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Science
  • Family (biology), a level of scientific classification for organisms
  • Family (periodic table), a group in the periodic table of elements
  • Gene family, a set of similar genes resulting from gene duplications
  • Protein family, a set of similar proteins resulting from gene duplications
  • Tornado family, a series of tornadoes spawned by the same storm cell
Linguistics
  • Language family, a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language
Arts, entertainment, and media

Art

  • The Family (Schiele), a 1918 oil painting by Egon Schiele
  • A Family (painting), a 1951 oil on canvas by Louis le Brocquy
  • The Family (Gross), a 1979 bronze sculpture in Manhattan, New York
  • The Family (Puccetti), a 1982 steel statue in West Allis, Wisconsin
  • Family (Blumenfeld), a 1983 public artwork by Helaine Blumenfeld, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

Films

  • A Family (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet film
  • The Family (1970 film) or Città violenta, an Italian crime film directed by Sergio Sollima
  • The Family (1972 film), an Ivorian film directed by Henri Duparc
  • The Family (1987 film) or La famiglia, an Italian film directed by Ettore Scola
  • Family (1996 film), a 1996 Telugu drama
  • Family (2001 film), a Takashi Miike film
  • Family (2001 Dutch film), a 2001 Dutch drama
  • A Family (2004 film), a South Korean film starring Soo Ae
  • Family (2006 film), an Indian Hindi film
  • A Family (2010 film), a Danish drama
  • The Family (2013 film), a French action comedy directed by Luc Besson
  • Families (2015 film), a French film
  • Family: Ek Deal, Hindi title of the 2016 Indian Telugu film Nannaku Prematho
  • The Family (2017 film), a Venezuelan film
  • A Family (2017 film), an Italian film
  • Family (2018 film), an American film
  • A Family (2024 film), a French documentary directed by Christine Angot

Literature

  • The Family (Shimazaki novel), 1911
  • The Family (Ba Jin novel), 1933
  • The Family, a 1971 book by Ed Sanders
  • A Family, a 1978 play by Ronald Harwood
  • The Family (Buchi Emecheta novel) (U.S.) or Gwendolen (UK), 1989
  • Family (Cooper novel), 1991
  • The Family (Puzo novel), 2001
  • The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, a 2004 book by Kitty Kelley
  • The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, a 2008 book by Jeff Sharlet

Music

Groups

  • Family (band), a 1966–73 English rock band
  • Family (Spanish band), a 1990s pop band
  • Family (Willie Nelson's band), Willie Nelson's recording and touring group
  • The Family (band), an American R&B band formed by Prince
  • The Family (songwriters), a Swedish songwriting and music production team
  • The Family, an urban contemporary gospel choir led by Kirk Franklin

Albums

  • Family (Ignite album), 1995
  • Family (LeAnn Rimes album), 2007
  • Family (Le Loup album), 2009
  • Family (May J. album), 2009
  • Family (Noah Gundersen EP), 2011
  • Family (Think About Life album), 2009
  • Family (Thompson album), 2014
  • The Family (Brockhampton album), 2022
  • The Family (The Family album), by the R&B band, 1985
  • The Family (Mashmakhan album), 1971
  • The Family, an album by Satchel, 1996

Songs

  • "Family" (The Chainsmokers and Kygo song), 2019
  • "Family", by Björk from Vulnicura
  • "Family", by Ed Sheeran from No. 5 Collaborations Project
  • "Family", by Joe Walsh from Analog Man
  • "Family", by Hed PE from New World Orphans
  • "Family", by the Rolling Stones from Metamorphosis
  • "Family", by S Club 3
  • "Family", by TobyMac from Eye on It

Television

Channels

  • Freeform (TV channel), formerly ABC Family, a U.S. television network
  • Family Channel (Canadian TV network), a Canadian kids' channel
  • TVNZ Family, a programming block on TVNZ 6, New Zealand

Series

  • Family (1976 TV series), a 1976–80 U.S. drama series
  • Family (1994 TV series), an Irish miniseries by Roddy Doyle
  • Family (2003 TV series), a British crime drama
  • Family (2012 TV series), a South Korean sitcom
  • #Family (2018 TV series), a Ugandan sitcom
  • Family: The Unbreakable Bond, a 2023 South Korean television series
  • Family: the web series, an episodic 2008 web series
  • Families (TV series), a 1990–93 British daytime soap opera
  • The Family (1971 TV series), a 1971 Canadian drama television series
  • The Family (1974 TV series), a fly-on-the-wall documentary series
  • The Family (2003 TV series), a 2003 reality television show
  • The Family (2008 TV series), a documentary series following British families
  • The Family (2011 TV series), an Australian version of the British series
  • The Family (2016 TV series), an American thriller/drama series
  • The Family (miniseries), a 2019 documentary series

Episodes and segments

  • "Family" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • "Family" (House)
  • "Family" (Masters of Horror), 2006
  • "Family" (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • "Family" (Stargate SG-1)
  • "Family" (The Secret Circle)
  • "The Family" (sketch), from The Carol Burnett Show
  • "Families", a Series F episode of the television series QI (2008)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Family (musical instruments), a grouping of similar musical instruments
  • The Family, a fictional group of aliens battled by the DC Comics character Metamorpho
  • The Family, a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Tony D'Angelo, Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Luca Crusifino and Adriana Rizzo
Groups and organizations
  • Family (US Census), a group of related people residing together
  • The Family (American crime organization), an NJ African-American crime organization founded by Akbar Pray
  • The Family (Arkansas politics), a 19th-century American political coalition
  • The Family (club), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901
  • "The Family", a group of 18th-century Carolina planters opposed by George Burrington
  • "The Family", a 2005–06 American terrorist cell arrested in Operation Backfire
  • "The Family", a gang responsible for The Family Murders in Adelaide, Australia.
  • Crime family, a name for crime organizations.
  • The Families, a gang in GTA San Andreas and GTA V.
Other
  • Family Butte, a landform in Utah, USA
See also
  • Familia (disambiguation)
  • Familial (disambiguation)
  • La Familia (disambiguation)

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