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family collocations
| a immediate family | your parents, siblings |
| extended family | includes all your relatives – uncles, cousins, great-aunts, etc. |
| a distant relative | A person who is related to you by a long series of connections |
| a close-knit family | a family that has good relationships, where everyone loves each other and helps each other |
| a dysfunctional family | a family in which the relationships are bad or unhealth |
| a bitter divorce | a separation in which there were bad/angry feelings between the husband and wife |
| custody of the children | who has the primary responsibility of caring for the kids |