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The Family is a relatively durable relationship between individuals who are conjoined in some kind of domestic arrangement for practical and/or personal reasons. This domestic arrangement involves those persons who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption and share a common residence or partake of shared meals; experience a sense of separateness from other domestic units, define a division of labour; and possess a set of mutual obligations and responsibilities( between spouses, and between spouses and offerings( Fleras, 2001). However in today’s word there are different type of families; there is the normal nuclear family which is the oldest form of family we have come to accept, then the extended family, Plural marriage family, Post modern family, single fault family, Blended family and gay and lesbian families, but in today’s society new forms spring up all the time and it is possible that there are families that we still do not know about yet. In order to understand what really goes on in the family s