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| In human context, a family (from Latin: familia ) is a group
of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-
residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for
the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally
classify family organization as matrilocal (a mother and her
children); conjugal (a wife, husband, and children, also called
nuclear family); and consanguinal (also called an extended
family) in which parents and children co-reside with other
members of one parent's family. There are also concepts of
family that break with tradition within particular societies, or
those that are transplanted via migration to flourish or else
cease within their new societies.Template:Huh As a unit of
socialization the family is the object of analysis for
sociologists of the family. Genealogy is a field which aims to
trace family lineages through history. In science