Professur said:
. A family is a man, a woman, and their children. That's not politics. That's not religion. That's the fucking english language.
Thats not exactly correct. If three brothers live together, they are a family. If there are children from previous relationships, they are not "their children" but they are a family.
In one case I know of, a wife left one brother for another brother. So the Uncle of the kids from the first relationship is also the father. The cousins are also step brothers and sisters...but they are "family"
I am raising a child who is not biologically mine, but he is my "family" and Id kill or die for him same as if he was mine.
So, the question is, does family have to involve 2 members of opposite sex in order to constitute "family"?
Well lets look at Websters:
"1 : a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head : HOUSEHOLD
2 a : a group of persons of common ancestry : CLAN b : a people or group of peoples regarded as deriving from a common stock : RACE
3 a : a group of people united by certain convictions or a common affiliation : FELLOWSHIP b : the staff of a high official (as the President)
4 : a group of things related by common characteristics: as a : a closely related series of elements or chemical compounds b : a group of soils that have similar profiles and include one or more series c : a group of related languages descended from a single ancestral language
5 a : the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their own or adopted children; also : any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family <a single-parent family> b : spouse and children <want to spend more time with my family>
6 a : a group of related plants or animals forming a category ranking above a genus and below an order and usually comprising several to many genera b in livestock breeding (1) : the descendants or line of a particular individual especially of some outstanding female (2) : an identifiable strain within a breed
7 : a set of curves or surfaces whose equations differ only in parameters
8 : a unit of a crime syndicate (as the Mafia) operating within a geographical area "
The same sex scenario could meet numbers 1, 2, 3, and 8 if they are good in their family buisness.