All cases are members of an extended family: sisters and brothers and their children.
Khuddo lived with a vast, extended family in a crowded home with her widowed mother, aunts, uncles and their families.
I liked the fact that he was a doctor. I knew that all my friends and extended family would be jealous of me if I married a doctor.
It's as though everyone I've ever known, all my life-my parents, my brother, my extended family, my ex-husband and his family-are all still right where I left them the last time I saw them.
This was the case one day in 2008 when an extended family of farmers from a village called Satichiwadi climbed up to the hilltop temple of their village goddess, planning to ask her for rain.
This progress nearly always requires the extended family to pull together.
My grandmother's brother Uncle Buddy and his wife, Ollie, were the primary members of my extended family.
Traditional support systems, such as extended family members, are less available to provide support due to their own busy schedules or distant living.
Asians, in fact, have several distinct family simplify: in South Asia it is traditional to have arranged, early marriages, in which men are dominant and the extended family is important.
When the Chinese buy a home, a great many don't go to the bank at all - they raise pooled money from the extended family and pay cash for the home - and then repay their relatives over time.
Others, including members of my extended family, have given up their health insurance.
Notice, this is not individualism in the modern sense, and it's not the nuclear family in the modern sense, these are extended family households.
As another example, most of us have family or extended family members who do not have much wealth because they have lived well beyond their means and have made poor personal and career decisions.
There are often many nuclear families in one extended family. An extended family includes children, parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts, and cousins.
"Now I also support extended family members and acquaintances who lost their property," says the Washington, D.C. area resident.
Less than two weeks ago, we were still at the cottage spending our early mornings swimming and our evenings spent having meals with extended family and watching the sun set over the lake.
Parents migrate to improve the well-being of their children and other extended family members.
For years, offsprings, especially sons had been expected to remain at home permanently, bringing their spouses home to the big, extended family when they got married.
Investigators at the outbreak site have found no evidence that infection has spread beyond members of this single extended family.
He is the oldest in his extended family.
He explained that he and a few others had killed two pigs to divide among his extended family, to be used in dishes for Galungan, during which ancestral spirits are believed to visit.
Her new location is cramped, but it's close to her extended family.
The reunion dinner eaten on New Year's eve was derigueur with members of the extended family gathering for the most significant meal of the year.
He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurely life with his wife and enjoy his extended family.
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