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What Is A Family
What Is A Family
The first participant said, "Two or more people male or female Legally
or religiously bound to each other excluding slavery." We talked about a
single person adopting, and all forms of marriage and polygamy. Even to a
degree forceful relationship including parents deciding a spouse for their
children and all other forceful families except forms of slavery. She is a 41-
year-old married woman born raised and currently a resident of Utah.
The second participant said "A family is one or more people with
relationships and emotional or biological connections strong enough to make
them feel more connected than an association. Traditionally a family is a
biological or communal relationship that connects people" This man is a 42-
year-old male also married in a different household born and raised in Alaska
currently living in Utah.
The third participant said "A group of more than one person that
connect on an emotional or biological level that all when altogether consider
themselves a unit. Not a single being or organism to say but instead
connected beyond the level of knowing or liking one another to loving and
supporting one another through all aspects of life." This is a 16 year old
female born and raised in Utah also currently living in Utah.
Kelvin Haynes