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History
In any society there is some variation in the actual composition and conception of families. Much sociological, historical and anthropological research is dedicated to understanding this variation, and changes over time in the family form. Thus, some speak of the bourgeois family, a family structure arising out of 16th and 17th century European households, in which the center of the family is a marriage between a man and woman, with strictly defined gender roles. The man typically is responsible for income and support, the woman for home and family matters.
Source: Wikipedia

Person
Confucius: the lineage of K’ung Ch’iu or Confucius (5512-479 BC.) can be traced back further than that of any other family. His great-great-great-great-grandfather K’ung Chia is known from the 8th century BC.
Source: Guinness World Records

Film
The Addams Family (1991): directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia. Tagline: It's not the same old Thing. Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Source: IMDb

Numbers
In polygamous countries (countries which allow a man to have more than one wife at a time), the number of a person’s descendants can become incalculable. The last Sharifian emperor of Morocco, Moulay Ismail, known as “The Bloodthirsty”, was reputed to have fathered a total of 525 sons and 342 daughters by 1703 and achieved a 700th son in 1721.
Source: Guinness World Records

Thing
The black sheep (of the family): someone who is thought to be a bad person by the rest of their family
Source: Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Song
Ode To My Family by Cranberries
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Recipe
Family Tree Cookies
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Wordplay
Family Planning Association is an anagram of An analysing of implications
Family tree is an anagram of Rate my life
The family tree is an anagram of My elite father
Source: Anagram Genius

Literature
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 700-page novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1975. It was adapted into a hugely popular, 12-hour television miniseries, also called Roots, in 1977, and a 14-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979.
Source: Wikipedia

Quotes
A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. (Cleveland Amory)
A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. (Samuel Johnson)
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. (Charles Swindoll)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. (Ogden Nash)
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of it. (Susan Sontag)
A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures - only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave. (Robert Nathan)
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. (Jane Howard)
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. (Benjamin Franklin)
Source: Creative Quotations

Proverbs
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently. (Chinese)
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family. (Chinese)
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. (Chinese)
A small family is soon provided for. (English)
In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind. (French)
The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree has its own position. (Ghanaian)
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. (Jewish)
If the family is together, the soul is in the right place. (Russian)
The family that prays together stays together. (Traditional)
Source: Creative Proverbs