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The family has traditionally been understood as an association of persons united first by marriage or descent that share a home, shared values, goals, resources, and responsibilities for each other. It is a universal human community made up of adult reproductively capable partners and their offspring, but also further relatives who live together with them. The family, in addition to reproductive, economic and social, also has a significant psychological, educational and socializing role. It is an important primary group and one of the most important agents of socialization.