Abigail Adams summary: The wife of the second president of the United States was born on November 11, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Both her parents were born in Massachusetts. Abigailâs father, Rev. William Smith, was born in Charlestown, and her mother, Elizabeth Quincy, in Braintree.
system. noun sysÂ·tem \Ësis-tÉm\. Tweet. : a group of related parts that move or work together. : a body of a person or animal thought of as an entire group of parts that work together.
Family Systems Theory Defined. To one person, family may mean a mother, a father, and children. To another person, family may mean a father, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, and sisters. There is no right or wrong way to define family, and all of these various makeups influence the interaction of each person within the family.