All articles starting with F
15,892 articles
Family Dollar
Family Dollar is an American discount variety-store chain founded in 1959 in Charlotte, North Carolina, selling merchandise at $1 to $10 price points to lower-income customers.
Family economics
Family economics is the branch of economics treating the family as a decision-making unit, descended from the New Home Economics of Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer in the 1960s.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, also called the Buckley Amendment, is the 1974 U.S. federal law (20 U.S.C. 1232g) giving parents and eligible students rights to inspect, amend, and control disclosure of education records, enforced by loss of federal funding.
Family Environment Scale
The Family Environment Scale (FES) is a self-report questionnaire measuring family social climate through ten subscales such as Cohesion, Conflict, and Control, published in 1974.
Family estrangement
Family estrangement: cutting off or drastically reducing contact with a close relative, often called going no contact. Prevalence estimates range from 6% (mothers) to 26% (fathers) of young adults; common causes are abuse, value clashes, and divorce.
Family Feud
Family Feud is an American TV game show created by Mark Goodson, premiering on ABC July 12, 1976, in which two families guess the most popular answers to questions surveyed among 100 people; hosted successively by Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O'Hurley, and Steve Harvey, adapted in some 80 territories.
Family First Party
Family First Party: Australian socially conservative Christian party, founded in Adelaide in 2004 from Assemblies of God networks, amalgamated into the Australian Conservatives in 2017, then relaunched and federally registered as Family First Party Australia in September 2024.
Family Fortunes
Family Fortunes is a British ITV game show, based on Family Feud, in which two families guess the most popular answers from a survey of 100 people.
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, following the Griffin family in Quahog, Rhode Island, on Fox since 1999. Cancelled in 2002, revived via Adult Swim reruns and DVD sales, it has aired over 450 episodes, won 9 Emmys, and is renewed through season 27.
Family Guy season 23
Family Guy season 23, the Fox animated sitcom's 2025 run of 18 episodes from February 16 to July 17, opened with the Top Gun parody Fat Gun, featured Brett Kavanaugh and Fire Island episodes, and streamed on Hulu and Disney+.
Family Guy season 24
Family Guy season 24 (2026): 15-episode Fox season premiering February 15, 2026 with the 450th episode "The Edible Arrangement", first of four renewed seasons (24–27), finale "High School History" May 17, 2026.
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff is TinyCo's 2014 free-to-play Quahog city-builder mobile game with clam premium currency, later run by Jam City, styled after The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
Family Happiness
Family Happiness («Семейное счастие») is an 1859 novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in Russky Vestnik, narrated by Masha, whose marriage passes through cooling, quarrels, and a redefined happiness.
Family Health
Family health: the health status of the family as a unit, including how one member's health and family organization affect members' health; a MeSH concept, nursing field, and measurable household property.
Family Law (Canadian TV series)
Family Law is a Canadian legal drama set in Vancouver, created by Susin Nielsen, which debuted on Global in September 2021 and stars Jewel Staite as attorney Abby Bianchi.
Family Law Act (Ontario)
Family Law Act (Ontario), R.S.O. 1990, c. F.3, is the provincial statute governing family property equalization, the matrimonial home, support obligations, and domestic contracts for married and some common-law couples in Ontario, enacted in 1986.
Family Law Act 1975
The Family Law Act 1975 is an Australian law governing divorce and family disputes, known for introducing no-fault divorce and creating the Family Court of Australia.
Family Law Act 1996
Family Law Act 1996 (1996 c. 27), UK statute for England and Wales. Part IV supplies non-molestation orders, occupation orders and home rights against domestic violence; Part 4A adds forced marriage protection orders; Part II divorce provisions were never brought into force.
Family law in England and Wales
Family law in England and Wales governs divorce, children, and domestic-abuse remedies; since 6 April 2022 its sole divorce ground is irretrievable breakdown on a no-fault basis.
Family law in German-speaking and Benelux civil-code systems
Family law in German-speaking and Benelux civil-code systems covers marriage, divorce, parental responsibility, and matrimonial property under the BGB, ABGB, Swiss Civil Code, and Belgian and Dutch codes.
Family law in Latin America, Spain and Portugal
Family law in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal comprises civil-law systems descended from Iberian codes, marked by differing default marital-property regimes, no-fault divorce, and growing recognition of cohabitation.
Family law in Poland
Family law in Poland is governed principally by the Family and Guardianship Code (Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy) of 1964, which regulates marriage, divorce, parental authority, maintenance, and guardianship, and keeps a fault-based divorce system.
Family law in Singapore
Family law in Singapore, governed by the Women's Charter 1961 for non-Muslims and the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966 for Muslims, covers marriage, divorce, maintenance, and children, administered by the Family Justice Courts and the Syariah Court under therapeutic justice principles and the Family Justice Rules 2024.
Family law in the Commonwealth: comparative overview
Family law in the Commonwealth: comparative overview is a comparative survey of family law across Commonwealth states, comparing Canada, Australia, Singapore, and the Caribbean on divorce, child support, and jurisdiction.
Family law of Northern Ireland
Family law of Northern Ireland is the body of statute and case law governing marriage, divorce, children, and adoption, centered on the 1978 and 1995 Orders.
Family law of Singapore
Family law of Singapore: dual system of civil family law under the Women's Charter 1961 and Muslim family law under the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966, covering marriage, divorce, maintenance, and children.
Family Leave
Family leave: authorized absence from work to care for a family member, including parental leave for newborns. Covers ILO standards, FMLA, OECD durations, UNICEF rankings, take-up and effects evidence.
Family Matters
Family Matters, ABC and CBS sitcom (1989-1998), spin-off of Perfect Strangers about the Winslows, a middle-class Black Chicago family, best known for Jaleel White's breakout nerd character Steve Urkel; 215 episodes, no proper finale.
Family Matters (Drake song)
Family Matters is Drake's May 3, 2024 diss track against Kendrick Lamar in their feud, a seven-minute three-part song alleging domestic abuse and infidelity, answered within minutes by "Meet the Grahams."
Family Matters (가족 계획) (South Korean TV series)
Family Matters (가족계획, Family Plan) is a 2024 Coupang Play six-episode South Korean black-comedy thriller starring Bae Doona as a memory-editing mother protecting her family from criminals; directed by Kim Gok and Kim Sun, created by Kim Jung-min.