extended family

After my father’s death, our large extended family rallied around my mom, brother and me, pitching in with child care so she could attend graduate school.

I do not want my friends or extended family to know about this choice.

I did not live by extended family when I was a child nor did I have family nearby when raising my own.

Many people have sought out at-home DNA testing kits as a way to learn more about their ancestors and their extended family trees.

Greg served in the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office for 27 years, and several extended family members in the past few generations have served in law enforcement.

The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.

Sabrina quickly realized that none of her extended family members were planning to write back to her.

During August and September, UNICEF had helped 700 children find a parent or extended family or placed a child in foster care.

It may not be a traditional family,” he says, “but it is an extended family.

He attempted to join his extended family in France before being turned away twice trying to get to Paris.

The extended family groupings in terms of matrilocal residence or centered around a sibling group are amorphous but flexible.

In this two-field system, land was held by peasants in units designed to support a single extended family.

The family in the narrower sense, the children of one father in one house, grew into a more extended family, the gens.