WordNet
n. primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" [syn: family]
Usage examples of "family unit".
And, in spite of the fantastic surface sociological differences, each made the family unit a basic one, each was monogamous, each entertained the concept of a single deity, and each had very sensitive personal feelings.
Few outside of the Klingon family unit ever saw that side of the warriors, but it was there.
In these troubled times you should have no difficulty in establishing a long-established family unit.
As far as thosse who have done the relevant ressearch have been able to determine, you would be the firsst ssoftssk-the firsst human to be formally inducted into an AAnn family unit.
They run things in their society and maintain a family unit with fertile males and females, but she was all alone.
Now the family unit was viewed as the foundation of strength, a forward-looking symbol of the future, humanity's only salvation.
By the time I got back to Thoreau, Zoe had signed out of the Family Unit, AMA--Against Medical Advice.
Of course, the responsible citizen tries to maintain harmonious relations with his family unit up to that point of interference.