Collocations withfamily
These are words often used in combination withfamily.
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adoptive family
Genetic liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorder and an adoptive family rearing variable interact, predicting longitudinally and significantly to broadly defined adoptee psychiatric disorder.
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aristocratic family
He was a scion of an old aristocratic family, a fact of which he was notoriously proud.
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bereaved family
Researchers received special training for sensitive data collection among bereaved family members and conducted interviews in the respondent's own home.
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bourgeois family
In his account the bourgeois family is presented as the initiator of change, the prime mover in the creation of the bourgeois public sphere.
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close-knit family
I am sure that as people watch the debate they will realise that we are a close-knit family.
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disadvantaged family
These analyses indicate that disadvantaged family and maternal characteristics have important influences on children's development and that approaches to address these disadvantages need to be considered.
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displaced family
Displaced family clans were splintered, their homes removed and many ancestral burying grounds were necessarily abandoned.
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dysfunctional family
More research is needed to assess the impact of comprehensive prevention programs focused on 2- and 3year-olds with early symptoms of externalizing problems residing in dysfunctional family settings.
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entire family
Our entire family was slowly, but surely, becoming a bilingual team.
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family carer
The family carer must know that he is crucial in the overall management of the person with dementia.
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family crest
He should be careful what he says about his family crest from one amendment to another.
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family discord
Missing data for 1 case about family discord and financial trouble.
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family dynamics
Whole family dynamics by definition include the child.
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family gathering
It was a family gathering which used to go to football matches.
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family lineage
Such arrangements, enacted without the customary familial negotiations, usurped the privileges of parents and their ability to protect their family lineage, stability, and honour.
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family outing
We are anxious, as are most people, that families return to watching football as a recreation and a family outing.
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family surname
There is a strong urge to have the family surname carried on.
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fatherless family
She also mentioned the interesting idea of a fatherless family allowance.
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foster family
The reason for changing the foster family was simple: the child was not cared for properly.
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grieving family
Often, the family doctor would sleep in the house of the dying to attend his patient night and day, and to offer comfort to the grieving family.
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hard-working family
They should have a right of appeal to enable them, these hard-working family farmers, to give their time and experience to assist our war effort.
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higher-income family
For instance, the current system favors nonworking married women over working women, essentially providing subsidies to higher-income families.
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immigrant family
The work of community officers has not followed through the relationship between the ordinary constable and the ordinary immigrant family.
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impoverished family
Is there any right of appeal if she is living in a very impoverished family where more than £80 is needed to get the requisite help?
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loving family
And wound up with health, a loving family, happiness.
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low-income family
My preference would be for a new low-income family index.
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lower-income family
I recognise that for many lower-income families the fear of debt is a real worry and could act as a bar to higher education.
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lower-middle-class family
Data for the lower-middle-class family budgets are from two magazine articles.
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median family income
Adolescents' parents reported a median family income in the $40,000-$59,999 range, which was within the same range as reported norms for the community as a whole.
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middle-class family
Nor should one suppose that all was happiness and harmony in the middle-class family.
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middle-income family
The typical middle-income family comes out best—without in any way seeking it.
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migrant family
All other strains from migrant family groups were unrelated.
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multigenerational family
Whatever the explanation, it is doubtful that fertility decline can help explain the decline of the multigenerational family.
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natal family
Perhaps even more common was the adoption by their natal family of a marriage strategy formerly considered unusual and undesirable: uxorilocal marriage.
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needy family
In other words, the subsidy should he for the needy family and not for the dwelling.
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patriarchal family
The basic concepts of family and patriarchal family are not as simple as they may seem.
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polygamous family
And then, from the extended family - brothers, cousins, nephews, parents, grand parents - we move on to the polygamous family.
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prominent family
It was an insult to its prestige to be robbed by politics of a 'counter-revolutionar y' from a prominent family.
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prosperous family
The upper section of the temple is hung with pots and pans, offerings from young married couples hoping for a happy and prosperous family life.
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royal family
And, most important for our purposes, he minimized episodes remembered in the oral tradition that might have been unpleasant for the royal family.
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ruling family
They may have been members of the ruling family or other nobles participating in the ceremony, ritual assistants of lower status, or perhaps captives.
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separated family
Note that in a separated family the sets are linearly ordered by the relation < defined above.
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surviving family
Whatever harms were possible were likely to accrue to the surviving family.
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two-earner family
The 'two-earner family' soon became a fact with public policy working to support it.
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two-parent family
Family structure (divorced\\ other single parent\\two-parent family) at the age of 14 was included.
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upper-class family
She was from an upper-class family of wealth and recognition, it did not give her the fame she desired from writing so easily.
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upper-middle-class family
First, these late talkers were all children with average or better nonverbal abilities, good receptive language, normal social-personality development, and middle- to upper-middle-class family backgrounds.
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visiting family
They need also to be able to engage in the social activities—visiting family and friends and shopping—that the rest of us are able to enjoy.
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wealthy family
The one case that was not obviously related to inheritance, occurred in a wealthy family.
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well-to-do family
Despite being born into a fairly well-to-do family, the harsh deprivations he suffered in his youth likely planted in him feelings of alienation.
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working family
The working families tax credit guarantees every working family an income of at least £180 a week.
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working-class family
Youthful femininity was fundamentally shaped by the demands of the labour market upon the working-class family.
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