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Familicide
Familicide, or family annihilation, is the killing of multiple family members, typically an intimate partner and one or more children, by a perpetrator who is overwhelmingly male and dies by suicide in about half of cases; roughly 23 US incidents occur yearly.
Familien Hoffmann, Oeri und Duschmalé
Familien Hoffmann, Oeri und Duschmalé are the descendant families of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, who founded the Basel pharmaceutical company Roche in 1896 and whose heirs remain its dominant shareholders.
Familien Schindler und Bonnard
Familien Schindler und Bonnard are two intermarried Swiss industrial families who, through shareholder agreements, control Schindler Holding, the elevator and escalator group founded in Lucerne in 1874.
Families like Ours
Families like Ours (Familier som vores) is a 2024 Danish seven-part miniseries written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg with Bo Hr. Hansen, depicting Denmark's evacuation amid rising sea levels; premiered at Venice and on TV 2 Denmark, later on Netflix.
Families of Archie's Gang
Families of Archie's Gang: the parents and siblings of Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Jughead Jones in Archie Comics, including Chic and Polly Cooper and Jellybean Jones, used sparingly in a non-continuity franchise.
Famille Hermès
The Hermès family, descendants of founder Thierry Hermès, control the Paris luxury house Hermès International through holding companies; its Dumas, Puech, and Guerrand branches hold over 50% of shares.
Famille rose
Famille rose, or fencai (粉彩), meaning "soft color," is a type of Chinese overglaze-enamelled porcelain developed at Jingdezhen in the late Kangxi period and peaked under the Yongzheng emperor.
Famille verte
Famille verte, French for "green family," is Chinese porcelain decorated with overglaze enamels dominated by bright translucent green, made at Jingdezhen during the Kangxi period from about 1685 to 1725.
Family
Family: a kinship-based social group organizing childrearing, inheritance, and care. Covers nuclear, extended, single-parent, and blended structures, historical change, US and OECD statistics, and children's outcomes research.
Family (1976 TV series)
Family (1976 TV series), ABC prime-time drama 1976-1980 about the Lawrence family of Pasadena, created by Jay Presson Allen, produced by Mike Nichols, Spelling and Goldberg; 86 episodes, four Emmy acting wins.
Family (2024 film)
Family (2024) is Benjamin Finkel's American horror-drama debut, premiered at SXSW March 8, 2024, starring Ruth Wilson, Ben Chaplin, and Cameron Dawson Gray; a girl summons a spirit to save her cancer-stricken father. Distinct from the Korean About Family, Angot's A Family, and Costabile's Familia.
Family (band)
Family, the English rock band (not the American indie act Family Band), formed 1966 in Leicester from The Farinas; seven albums 1968-1973, UK peak No. 4 with A Song for Me, disbanded 1973, reunited 2013-2016.
Family (biology)
A family (biology) is a Linnaean taxonomic rank, originating in Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1735, that groups related genera and is critical for conservation assessments.
Family (disambiguation)
Family (disambiguation): senses of the word family across everyday English, UN statistical and policy definitions, kinship, biology, linguistics, mathematics, organized crime, family assessment, and the UK Family Test.
Family allowance
A family allowance is a recurring cash payment made by the state, or originally by employers, to households with children, usually paid per child from birth to a set age.
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
The Family and Medical Leave Act is a U.S. law that provides up to 12 workweeks of job-protected leave to employees at covered private-sector employers and public agencies.
Family area
A family area is a themed zone in an amusement, theme, or water park grouping gentle rides, play, dining, and character entertainment aimed at young children and their families.
Family B DNA polymerases
Family B DNA polymerases are a structurally related group of enzymes defined by a five-subdomain architecture with proofreading, including eukaryotic Pol α, Pol δ, Pol ε, and Pol ζ.
Family business
A family business, also called a family firm, is a company a family controls through ownership or decision-making rights, usually intending to keep control across generations.
Family Business (French TV series)
Family Business: French Netflix comedy series (2019–2021, 3 seasons, 18 episodes) created by Igor Gotesman, also known as Joint Venture. Jonathan Cohen plays Joseph Hazan, who converts his father's kosher butcher shop into the cannabis coffee shop la Beucherie.
Family by Choice (조립식 가족)
Family by Choice (조립식 가족) is a 2024 JTBC Korean drama, a 16-episode remake of the Chinese series Go Ahead, starring Hwang In-yeop, Jung Chae-yeon, and Bae Hyun-sung as three non-blood-related youths raised as family who reunite after ten years. Not the fertility platform or podcast of the same name.
Family Catastrophe
Family Catastrophe (Jiabian, 家变) is a 1973 novel by Taiwanese writer Wang Wen-hsing, in which a son searches for his father who has left home.
Family Characteristics
Family characteristics denote the size and composition of a family (MeSH D005191), covering family size, structure, and marital status, measured via censuses and surveys such as the ACS, DHS, and UN household databases.
Family Code of Russia
The Family Code of Russia, adopted as Law No. 223-FZ in December 1995, is the federal statute governing marriage, divorce, property, alimony, and child placement, in force since 1996.
Family Code of Ukraine (Сімейний кодекс України)
The Family Code of Ukraine (Сімейний кодекс України) is the statute, adopted in January 2002, that governs marriage, divorce, parental rights, adoption, and alimony in Ukraine.
Family Constellations
Family Constellations (Familienstellen), a group method founded by Bert Hellinger in the late 1980s, uses representatives to portray a client's family system; evidence of effectiveness is contested, with a 2026 review finding no reliable supporting evidence.
Family court
Family court: specialized courts hearing divorce, custody, support, adoption, and domestic violence matters. Origins in US juvenile (Chicago 1899) and domestic relations courts (1910); models include integrated family courts and England and Wales's FPR 2010 system.
Family Court (England and Wales)
The Family Court is the single court that hears family proceedings in England and Wales, created on 22 April 2014 under the Crime and Courts Act 2013.
Family Court of Australia
Family Court of Australia: federal superior court established 1975 for complex family law trials and appeals; since 1 September 2021 continued as Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) with 35 specialist judges.
Family Day (Canada)
Family Day is a Canadian provincial statutory holiday on the third Monday of February, observed in Alberta, BC, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, with Louis Riel Day, Islander Day, and Heritage Day in Manitoba, PEI, and Nova Scotia; not a federal holiday.