Synonyms for family unit
fam·i·ly unit

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1. family, family unitnoun

   primary social group; parents and children

   "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

   Synonyms:
   kinsperson, mob, crime syndicate, kinfolk, menage, family line, class, home, category, kinsfolk, family, folk, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, house, syndicate

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1. Apple Watch:

   We hope that this initiative will improve the lives of seniors, it helps with the caregiver as well – it helps with the whole family unit.

2. Pearl S. Buck:

   The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

3. Charlie Hall:

   There's just a greater cohesiveness within the family unit that occurs outside with your hands in the dirt, there's not as much eye-rolling when teenagers are told to do something, not as much fighting between siblings. There's fewer harsh words between spouses.

4. Eliza Park:

   The patient in these situations truly is the entire family unit.

5. Claudia Mobley:

   He wanted them to be a family unit again.