The English-language Wikipedia article on the extended family, covering its definition and its status as the basic family unit across most of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Indigenous, Latin American and Caribbean societies.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_family
Source TypeEncyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia article used for standard, uncontested definitional and historical claims. Sources
Wikipedia: Extended Family
WikipediaArticle, self-citation: entity-descriptionQuote, Article, self-citation: entity-description
An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family of parents and their children to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or other relatives, all living nearby or in the same household.
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This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Kinship and Family Systems, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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9Kinship and Family Systems
General References
3Kinship and Family Systems
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