Look around you. Who are the people who care for you? They are your family. Families are people who love and help each other, whether they live together or in different places.
Families can include mothers, fathers, children, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. A family can be any size—just two people, or twenty, or more.
Some children live with two parents, some live with one parent. Some children live with grandparents or with a foster family. Other children live with a parent and a stepparent and other children.
Do you have brothers or sisters? Do you live with your aunt or your cousins? There are all kinds of families, and no two are exactly alike.
Some Inuit families in northern Canada spend most of their time together. In the summer, families hunt and fish together.
On kibbutzim in Israel, all the parents once lived together in one house while all the children lived together in another. Today, children live with their parents and go to school with other children. But they still sometimes help their parents work on the community farm.
An Ashanti boy in Ghana, Africa, lives with many mothers. He lives in a house with his mother, his grandmother, and his mother’s sisters and their children. All the children are like brothers and sisters to him. The boy’s father comes to visit, but he lives in his own mother’s house.
In Japan, grandparents often live with their oldest son and his family. The grandmother helps care for the children. In Norway, many farms have two houses. One house is for the grandparents, and one is for their son or daughter and their grandchildren.
On the tropical island of Borneo, all the people in a Dayak village live together in one long house. Each family is also part of the village family.
Families come in all sizes and styles. Wherever they live, families are people who care for and help one another.
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