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Faggot
Faggot is an English word: chiefly a highly offensive slur for a gay man, first attested in US slang in 1914, and also an older word for a bundle of sticks, a British offal dish, and a 1590s contemptuous term for a woman.
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 (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 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 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 of Mahatma Gandhi
Family of Mahatma Gandhi: descendants of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba through sons Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, and Devdas; over 100 living descendants, mostly outside politics, unrelated to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
Family of Pope Leo XIV
Family of Pope Leo XIV: the Chicago Prevost family of Robert Francis Prevost, first American pope elected 8 May 2025. Parents Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Agnes Martinez, brothers Louis Martin and John Joseph, maternal roots in New Orleans and Haiti.
Family tree
A family tree, or genealogical tree, is a diagram showing relationships among family members across generations, also called a kinship diagram in anthropology and a pedigree in medicine.
Family tree of Muhammad
Family tree of Muhammad: his Banu Hashim lineage of Quraysh traced to Adnan (agreed) and to Isma'il (disputed), his relatives, wives, children, and the sayyid/sharif descendants through Fatimah.
Family values
Family values: beliefs about marriage, children, intergenerational duty, and gender roles, also a political idiom. Surveys in the US, China, and 114 countries consistently rank family the top personal value.
Fat acceptance movement
Fat acceptance movement: social movement against anti-fat stigma and discrimination, originating with the 1967 Central Park fat-in and NAAFA's 1969 founding by Bill Fabrey; includes the Fat Underground, Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973), and Health at Every Size.
Fat fetishism
Fat fetishism, or fat admiration (adipophilia), is sexual attraction to fat or obese bodies; its subculture feederism eroticizes feeding and weight gain, with feeders and feedees, and is not itself a DSM-5 paraphilic disorder.
Father absence
Father absence: a child living apart from the biological father due to divorce, nonmarital birth, death, or migration. Research links it to worse education, mental health, and behavior, with smaller effects in rigorous causal designs.
Fathia Nuri Khalid (فتحية نوري خالد)
Fathia Nuri Khalid (فتحية نوري خالد; also Fatiha al-Nuri) was a Libyan schoolteacher, first wife of Muammar Gaddafi (married 1969, divorced 1970), daughter of Brigadier Nuri Khalid, and mother of his eldest son Muhammad.
Federal Marriage Amendment
The Federal Marriage Amendment was a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment, H.J. Res. 56 introduced by Marilyn Musgrave in 2003, defining marriage as only a man-woman union; debated in Congress in 2004, it never passed, and Obergefell v. Hodges later made it moot.
Feeld
Feeld (formerly 3nder) is a dating app founded in 2014 by Dimo Trifonov for singles and couples exploring ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, and kink; CEO Ana Kirova, Majestic paid tier, 20+ sexualities and 30+ desire tags.
FEMA camps conspiracy theory
FEMA camps conspiracy theory: false belief that the US Federal Emergency Management Agency runs secret concentration camps for citizens under martial law; began in 1980s militia circles, repeatedly debunked, resurges around disasters and COVID-19.
Female education
Female education: schooling of girls and women worldwide. Also called girls' education. Near-global enrolment parity by 2024, but 119–133 million girls out of school, women 63% of illiterate adults, and tertiary enrolment now favors women.
Female foeticide in India
Female foeticide in India, also called gender-biased sex selection, is aborting a female fetus after ultrasound sex determination, driven by son preference; illegal under the PC&PNDT Act 1994, it produced child sex ratios as low as 914 in 2011.
Female Homosexuality
Female homosexuality, also called lesbianism (MeSH: Homosexuality, Female), is sexual attraction or relationships between females. Distinguished from male homosexuality by greater measured fluidity, gender-nonspecific arousal in androphilic women, and a sparser historical record; depathologized in the 1973 DSM-II decision.
Female infanticide
Female infanticide is the killing of girl infants after birth, distinct from female foeticide. Driven by son preference, it has contributed to over 142 million missing women and girls, mainly in Asia and the South Caucasus.
Female infanticide in China
Female infanticide in China: historical killing of infant girls driven by son preference, documented in Imperial China and reported in the 1980s under the one-child policy, now rare and largely replaced by sex-selective abortion and under-reporting.
Female promiscuity
Female promiscuity: multiple-partner or casual sexual behavior by women and its social judgment. Key facts: sexual double standard (meta-analysis d=0.25), Add Health peer-status findings, Natsal-3 partner-count gap 14.14 vs 7.12, Chinese survey evidence.
Female sex tourism
Female sex tourism, also called romance tourism, is travel by women to developing countries such as the Caribbean, Gambia, and Kenya for sex or romance with local men, distinguished by informal payment, contested labeling versus male sex tourism, and documented STI and exploitation concerns.
Female sexual arousal dysfunction
Female sexual arousal dysfunction (ICD-11 HA01.0) is reduced genital, non-genital, or subjective sexual arousal in women despite desire and adequate stimulation, causing distress; ISSWSH splits it into cognitive and genital subtypes, while DSM-5 merges it with low desire into FSIAD.
Female submission
Female submission is the expectation or practice of women deferring to male authority in relationships, marriage, and society. Covers legal history, psychological costs, cross-cultural attitudes, consensual BDSM, and recent Gen Z survey trends.
Female-led relationship
A female-led relationship (FLR) is a relationship in which the partners agree that the woman is the main authority, with control ranging from informal to full.
Femboy
Femboy: slang for a usually cisgender young man with a conventionally feminine manner of self-expression; also 男の娘 (otoko no ko). 1990s slur reclaimed online, meme breakout late 2019, dictionary-listed circa 2012.
Femen (Фемен)
Femen (Фемен), feminist protest movement founded in Ukraine in 2008 in Khmelnytskyi, known for topless "sextremism" actions with slogans painted on the body against patriarchy, dictatorships, and the sex industry; later based in Paris and criticized for Islamophobia.
Femicide
Femicide: intentional killing of women because they are women (feminicidio, feminicide); coined by Diana Russell in 1976, Brussels. About 50,000 women and girls were killed by partners or family in 2024, 60% of all intentional female killings.