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n. 1 A family unit consisting of a parent or parents and their children. 2 A family unit consisting of all relatives living in a single household.
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The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a person's family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a person's parents, spouses, siblings, children. It can contain others connected by birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation, such as grandparents, great-grandparents, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, aunts, uncles, siblings-in-law, half-siblings, cousin, adopted children and step-parents/step-children, and cohabiting partners.
The term close relative is used similarly.
The concept of "immediate family" acknowledges that a person has or may feel particular responsibilities towards family members, which may make it difficult to act fairly towards non-family (hence the refusal of many companies to employ immediate family members of current employees), or which call for special allowance to recognise this responsibility (such as compensation on death, or permission to leave work to attend a funeral). It is used by travel insurance policies to determine a set of people on the basis of whose health someone might need to cancel a journey or return early. The concept is used by some countries' inheritance laws.
Immediate Family is a 1989 drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It stars Glenn Close and James Woods as a married childless couple who want a baby. They decide to adopt from a pregnant teenage girl who later gets second thoughts.
Immediate Family may refer to:
- Immediate family
- Immediate Family (film), a 1989 drama film
- Immediate Family (book), a 1992 photography book by Sally Mann
Immediate Family is a 1992 photography book by Sally Mann. The book is published by Aperture and contains 65 duotone images. The book predominately features Mann's three children, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, who also appear on the front cover. 13 of the pictures show nudity and two show minor injuries; Emmett with a nosebleed and Jessie with a swollen eye. Stills from the book were displayed at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in 1992 and again 15 years later in 2007. Several images from the book were re-published in Mann's next book, Still Time.
Usage examples of "immediate family".
Ja-lur was a quiet city by comparison with the capital, yet there was always a guard kept at every entrance to the chambers of Ja-don and his immediate family as well as at the gate leading into the temple and that which opened upon the city.
Less than a year later, her immediate family had been caught in the nuclear blast which had buried Cleveland under an arm of Lake Erie.
He was always controlled, his inner self firmly locked away from everyone except his immediate family.
Having fallen out of favor with both the underworld and the law enforcement agencies, Jorff's father decided that a change of scene would be beneficial for the health and probable longevity of self and immediate family, and organized a hasty move to the Central Americas.
Years ago, his own tiny sister died screaming in his arms after the very first of Kabul Anak's vicious raids on helpless Carescria-a raid that cost him everyone else in his immediate family, as well.
The very few people who knew what he was up to, a small group of immediate family and close friends, had seen him off with quiet rejoicing.
Even inside the walls he was screened from all but his most immediate family by zealous, hereditary officials and ancient, mystic protocols.
In fact, under the circumstances, a small, quiet ceremony is wholly appropriate-immediate family only.