Talk:family of procreation

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The lemma
Currently "The family that is formed when a couple have their first child." Well, i've only heard the phrase used once, but its context then makes me believe the term is fuzzier than that. Everyone has at least one family of origin, but children of a remarried parent, the adopted, and kids in the foster-care system, each have at least two. Correspondingly IMO, the Brady phenom (remarried people & the respective kids of each), at least notionally exemplifies the concept of a f. of p. for not only each child-rearing unit, but also for each relationship that might evolve into a f/p, the distinction between one person's f/o(s) and their f/p(s) is potentially useful no matter how many or few of each that person has. BTW, "have [a] child" by default literally describes the condition of possession, but in this context invokes an idiom for the pair composed of the actions of conception and the event of giving birth (to a great extent an experience rather than action) or being paternal peri-natally, while "procreation", in the sense seemingly involved, clearly refers in context to the highly variable substance of "being, or acting like and being treated like, a parent", regardless of whether it rests on coitus, on legal or de facto adoption, etc., and what fraction of the effort and/or effect it plays out to provide. -Jerzy•t 07:23, 9 August 2015 (UTC) [saved]