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--table cut-- 2804:214:82B3:D2F8:C8ED:DAEC:A508:BC4B (talk) 14:10, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

This material has been repeatedly inserted and removed from article and talk page. Certes (talk) 14:20, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

This is off mission for this encyclopedia, please stop pasting it in over and over - no amount of that activity will make it appropriate for inclusion here. - MrOllie (talk) 18:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

The section "Family of choice" starts with this sentence: 'The term family of choice, also sometimes referred to as "chosen family" or "found family", is common within the LGBT community, veterans, individuals who have suffered abuse, and those who have no contact with biological "parents".' Why are there quotation marks around the word 'parents'? Is it intended to assert the idea that biological parents don't exist for some people? If so, how, exactly, did these people come into existence? Or is it intended to convey some other idea? Is so, what is this idea? I note that further along in the paragraph, we have the phrase: 'the biological family'. There are no quotation marks here. Are we to assume that there are biological families with no biological parents?

Another vocabulary question is what the word 'roots' means in the picture caption which reads 'Extended family with roots in Cape Town, Kimberley and Pretoria, South Africa'. It is not at all clear to me what the word 'roots' is intended to convey here.

I think some rewriting to clarify the intended meaning is definitely in order.Saintonge235 (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Ans 2409:408C:9012:AFBF:0:0:1F2D:10B0 (talk) 10:02, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Yes, the family system has changed in modern life. Please feel free to suggest specific edits to improve that part of the article. Certes (talk) 10:28, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Should there be section on authority and the role of a family head/other systems of authority? Kowal2701 (talk) 22:02, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Like a subsection under ==Social== Kowal2701 (talk) 22:03, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply