Hi, are you a parent?
I am not a parent. Well, not yet at least. What about you?
Yes, believe it or not I have 12 kids!
Are you a single parent? If so, do you mind me asking why that is the family structure?
No, not a single parent!  I had 3 kids with my first husband, who died. And then I married a widower who had 6 kids. And we adopted 3 special needs kids.
, and siblings-in-law. Sometimes these are also considered members of the immediate family, depending on an individual's specific relationship with them.
In most societies, the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children. As the basic unit for raising children, loving them, and caring for them anthropologists generally classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family); avuncular (for example,
, and seven hundred others. "Missionaries are so dear to the entire church that when one is lost through death the entire church grieves," said President Hinckley. President Monson affirmed, "It is no small thing to have every missionary parent praying for you and knowing that your hearts are filled with sorrow." He continued, "I think your son would say, 'Do not grieve, mother. Do not sorrow, father. I am on the Lord's errand and he may do with me as he