We have blended families, adopted families, we have nuclear families living in separate houses and divorced families living in the same house.

We are now witnessing a progressive weakening of patriarchy, reinforced by the shift from traditional to more nuclear families.

By contrast, the extended family is giving way in India to nuclear families, which now account for 64 of households.

In the UK the number of nuclear families fell from 39 of all households in 1968 to 28 in 1992.

The basic family unit is the extended family, although there has been a growing trend towards nuclear families for socio economic reasons.

Traditional definitions of family structure based on two major types, nuclear and extended families, are being enriched with the emergence of new family types such as cohabitation, same gender relationships and single parent and reorganized families.

Strengthening families

large families

indigent families

Their Families

Families grow.

Families! I...

Your families.

Happy Families?

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much.

Single parent families headed by women, poor families with elderly members, refugee and displaced families, among others, deserve special attention.

Single Parent Families

Many families relocated

Refugee and internationally displaced families are another group of families at risk.

There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno and Colombo families.

Families of the Future

Loosing families and homes

Members of Their Families

Strengthening families and communities

AIDS is devastating families.

Families (resolution 47 110,

International Conference on Families

International Conference on Families

Families are increasingly vulnerable.

Indifferent to our families.

Families need the help.

Families on cell phone.

These families have children.

Whole families working together.

We don't have families

Good old Italian families!

Special attention has been called to refugee families, families implicated in wars as well as civil or ethnic strife, extremely poor families, families with heavy caring burdens, single parent families and individuals who are victims of domestic violence, abuse or exploitation, notably children and women.

These are the sons of Dan after their families of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.

The programme will repatriate 626 families to Wakakona, 124 families to Renk and 1,245 families to Malakal, with the collaboration of national and international NGOs.

Are we just discovering new members of known families, or are we discovering new families?

Higher ages for marriage and declining fertility resulting directly from widening use of artificial contraception are reducing family size to something much closer to the nuclear families of the West.

It's heartbreaking for their families.

Families, journalists prevented from entering.

(a) Population, households and families.

Association of United Families International