FAMILY Student Name Lecturer Name Institution Affiliation Date Scholars have struggled for several decades to have a standard definition of a family. Most researchers still restrict their definition of families to nuclear families, while others believe that universal families exist. In my perspective, a family is a group of specific people who reside together in a particular household, promote social, material, reproduction, and emotional support, and builds a sense of identity, personal ties, and shares history and future. There are other diverse perspectives and definitions of family. Lisa (2016) elaborates that Murdock was a researcher in 1949 who defined a family as a socially
