@Stupid_Goo
does this mean anyone can be a family if you pick up a kid and raise them into adulthood (18+) ?
Yes, and this is me being extremely generous (as long as the kid being "picked up" is through legal adoption recognized by local authorities)
Because if you mean actually raising them and teaching them right from wrong, I gotta say that this generation has maybe 10% of families who had kids are actually doing their filial jobs - the other 90% or so are either giving them up for adoption or letting them become shitheaded snowflakes - or are the snowflakes that think they know how to raise their kids.
This is exactly why the western world is in a crisis, because few children are raised in to proper adults in a healthy and supportive environment. From the destruction of the family, the removal of fathers as a necessary component of parents, and treating children as if they have the mental capacity and understanding of adult concepts.
I do agree "husband and wife" translates to "married couple," but still - they could very well be living with their own parents, siblings or other relatives and it'd be called a "family," usually because related by blood, if not in-laws/step-relatives or adopted/foster relatives.
While I do agree that in a wider sense, these can be considered as family. But this will eventually cause the idea of family to slowly lose it's meaning. Because the only thing separating a group consisting of a parent and a child with 2 persons who live in a house is that the legal system recognizes one as a family while the other as not a family. This means that the group is defined by the state/authorities rather than the expressed purpose of a family.
A family has an almost sacred idea, where two individuals (more on single parent households later) swear fealty to eachother to raise their progeny in to respectable individuals who will eventually do the same thus continuing the cycle)
Which is why I can't help but feel companies that call themselves a "family" to be malicious.
anyways on single parent household. Raising children is fucking tough, two people is the bare minimum of doing that as there is a balanced needed between providing for the family and to teach values to the child. Single parent households means one person needs to do BOTH. Yea good luck with that. Because that one parent is too busy trying to keep her/his/its family alive, that parent doesn't have the time to give the child the attention he/she/it needs and deserves. The neglect will negatively affect the child and will more often than not lead them to a very bad path in life. This doesn't even factor in potential abuse from the single parent due to built up stress from doing two very difficult jobs.
