Family

In human society, family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of families is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideally, families would offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and participate in the community. In most societies, it is within families that children acquire socialization for life outside the family, and acts as the primary source of attachment, nurturing, and socialization for humans. Additionally, as the basic unit for meeting the basic needs of its members, it …

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GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2024 English

In this issue of The GALA Times we go back to the late 1980s, a time of conflict, uprising and hope. [...] Also, there is still a large portion of …

this year’s programme, the themes of Home and Family continue to stand out as the areas where the basic credited to Sara Petersen) Do you remember the ‘family meetings’ Cyril would call during the lockdowns don’t know how Cyril’s speeches became termed family meetings, but if you know the South African disposition pinch of sarcasm embedded in the memes about the “Family Meetings”. There is no humour in remember the beyond a cute way to describe a sports team. Chosen-family, siblings, community, comrades, “my peo- ple”


GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2023 English

I thought this would be a great opportunity for us to revisit that interview, and then take the Fea- tured Fam section of the newsletter to reflect on her life …

happened since. What’s your work, what’s your family like? I think you said you had children? Sivu


GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2023 English

Solidarity is the constant whisperer appealing to our human instincts of empathy and understanding. [...] In addition, the challenges faced by activists in this context are nu- anced, and the …

during dinner conversations at home with your family. This is a very achievable way to express solidarity I was and the shame that it would bring to my family in our small community of farmers and gossipers


GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2023 English

I am forgetting my own teach- ings, teachings of love, teachings of breath and learning how to live in the now. [...] I have been stressed and unhappy, but that …

after many months of being with this amazing family feels unsettled and undeserving. This has nothing graduating from university, I returned to the family home like some of us. One year later, I left home gave up on my master’s degree and returned to the family home again. The diary also came everywhere with gone nowhere. During the brief vis- its to the family home after 2013, I would take the diary from the and go back to Istanbul. Time passed, and on a family visit a few years ago, I decided that I could


Laws.Africa · 18 November 2022 English

Taxonomic description Order: Bucerotiformes Family: Bucorvidae Genus: One of two species in the genus are needed. A fine-scale focus on the needs of family groups at several research sites in South Africa host-specific Mallophaga genera of the amblyceran family, Menoponidae described thus far: Bucerophagus africanus


Laws.Africa · 4 November 2022 English

to the next generation within your Community or Family or Clan YES:☐ maintained, used and developed within your Community or Family or Clan


Laws.Africa · 28 October 2022 English

father’s surname. It is our wish that I carry both family names as I was raised jointly by both parents and


Laws.Africa · 21 October 2022 English

dated 26th August, 2021, in favour of Legacy Homes Family Trust (MA1159/2021) in terms of which certain


Laws.Africa · 21 October 2022 English

made by a personal representative or a member of family of the complainant or such other person as the


Laws.Africa · 21 October 2022 English

Justice England and Wales, Principal Registry of the Family Division, Harlow, United Kingdom on 24th March


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