family unit

Noun

Meaning

primary social group; parents and children

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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. Ashley Montagu

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today. Paul Prudhomme

The family unit is the incubator for human character; the state is the incubator for human dependency. Robert LeFevre

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. John le Carré

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life. Henry B. Eyring

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. Luis Gutierrez

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