Family
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Narrowly, parents and their offspring. More broadly, the group defined as those who have common ancestry. That is, the group produced as a result of sex leading to offspring.
The term is also used more loosely to describe a group with some form of common characteristic or a group with a relationship (other than ancestral).
A family requires (at least) a mother, a father, and children.