In the context of a human being, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies is the main institution for socializing children. Extended from human “family unit” by biological affinity — culture, marriage, economy, culture, tradition, honor, and friendship is the concept of family physical and metaphorical, or who grow increasingly inclusive expanding community, village, city, region, nationality, global village and humanism. Family groups consisting of a father, mother and their children referred to the nuclear family. This term can be compared with the family.
One of the main functions of the family is to produce and reproduce persons, biologically and socially. Thus, one of a family experience shifts from time to time. From the perspective of children, the family is the “family orientation”: the family serves to locate children socially, and plays a major role in the socialization and inculturation. From the standpoint of parent (s), the family is a family of procreation, “goal that will produce and enculturate and socialize children. However, producing children is not the only function of the family; in societies with a sexual Division of labor, marriage, and the resulting relationship between two people, required for the establishment of productive economic household.