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A family is a domestic or social group.

Family or The Family may also refer to:

Mathematics

• Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters
• Family of sets, a collection of sets
• Indexed family, a family where each element can be given an index
• Normal family, a collection of continuous functions
• Parametric family, a family where elements are specified by a set of parameters

Religion

• Holy Family of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph
• Family International, a religious movement formerly called the Children of God
• The Family (Australian New Age group), a controversial Australian religious group
• The Family (Christian political organization), or The Fellowship, a Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Christian group
• "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", a 1995 statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Science

• Family (biology), a level of scientific classification for organisms
• Family (periodic table), a group in the periodic table of elements
• Gene family, a set of similar genes resulting from gene duplications
• Protein family, a set of similar proteins resulting from gene duplications
• Tornado family, a series of tornadoes spawned by the same storm cell

Linguistics

• Language family, a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language

Arts, entertainment, and media

Groups and organizations

• Family (US Census), a group of related people residing together
• The Family (American crime organization), an NJ African-American crime organization founded by Akbar Pray
• The Family (Arkansas politics), a 19th-century American political coalition
• The Family (club), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901
• "The Family", a group of 18th-century Carolina planters opposed by George Burrington
• "The Family", a 2005–06 American terrorist cell arrested in Operation Backfire
• "The Family", a gang responsible for The Family Murders in Adelaide, Australia.
• Crime family, a name for crime organizations.
• The Families, a gang in GTA San Andreas and GTA V.

See also

• Familia (disambiguation)
• Familial (disambiguation)
• La Familia (disambiguation)